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...150th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, President Eisenhower approved the first change in the penny's design since the Indian disappeared in 1909. By Feb. 12, the U.S. Mint will be well stocked with bright new copper coins. On the face will be the familiar, haggard profile. On the reverse side will be a new front view of the Lincoln Memorial, a rearrangement of the old words: "One Cent." "United States of America." "E Pluribus Unum...
Author Waller, 35, is himself a Manhattan public-relations man. His novel is printed on mint-green paper with "chromatically related'' dark green lettering. The Whiteford Paper Co.'s E. A. Whiteford, who minted this process, argues that the book has "built-in sun glasses" and saves the reader the "repellent" eyestrain of conventional black and white...
Fresh from the Mint. Dulles resisted any temptation to preen. "There he sat," said one British diplomat, "listening to men put on record what he and everyone else who knows anything about the Soviets have known since 1920. But he never gave the slightest indication of boredom. He looked as though every word he heard had been freshly minted...
...days in Divinity Hall. "Twenty-eight hundred books," he says, explaining the shop. "I had to do something with them. I sold one just the other week. This fellow came in, said he'd been looking for a certain biography of John Greenleaf Whittier. Well, I had it. Mint condition, too--people don't browse through a book like that very often. He said he'd been hunting for the thing for three years. I told him he should have come to me--I've had it for thirty...
...reliable, respectable Republican Herald Tribune, longtime morning rival of the good, grey and sometimes Democratic New York Times (circ. 623,000), Publisher Reid, then 29, confidently prescribed such bitter potions as brassy circulation-building contests and a mint-green third news section. He cut down on serious news coverage in order to trowel crime and cheesecake across Page One, souped up the gossip columns and, in fact, gave Broadway Gossipist (and onetime pressagent) Hy Gardner a powerful voice in the paper's inner councils...