Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another man might look upon Beaverbrook Newspapers, Ltd. as a monument to himself: a press empire second in size only to Cecil King's mammoth Daily Mirror newspapers (9,700,000 to 16.7 million) - and second to none, among the country's popular press, in professional competence. But to the Beaver, his papers are simply an extension of himself, a setting for his unslaked passions, fighting tools, the instruments of his will...
Publishing the Los Angeles Times is beginning to seem like a part-time operation for Norman Chandler's Los Angeles Times-Mirror Co. Lately, Chandler has demonstrated an insatiable appetite for books. Three years ago, his company bought the New American Library of World Literature, one of the nation's largest publishers of paperbacks (300 titles a year); last month it was Matthew Bender & Co., Inc., which publishes lawbooks and also owns two other publishing companies in related technical fields...
...Chandler has announced that by year's end the Times-Mirror Co. will acquire the World Publishing Co. of Cleveland, whose list of titles includes such perennial bestsellers as the Holy Bible, Webster's New World Dictionary and the Skira Art Books...
...Guardian splenetically accused fellow journalists of being little better than prostitutes and purveyors of pornography (though in fact, it carried more words on the case than the tabloid Daily Mirror). But for all its excesses, it was the press that was largely responsible for bringing the Profumo affair to light. And it was the normally pro-government London Times which insisted from the first that the case posed a moral issue...
...roles of years past, Doris is a pinchpenny; she makes the beds, empties the clothes hampers, and runs off brobdingnagian batches of tomato ketchup in the basement. When she gets an offer to appear on a television commercial praising Happy Soap for $332, Day spends a day before the mirror practicing different ways (surprised, sultry, sincere, brisk, cordial) to say "Hi, there, I'm Beverly Boyer and I'm a housewife . . ." Her winsome incompetence melts the heart of the Happy Soap king, who signs her to an $80,000 contract as his new Happy Girl...