Word: mirroring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Archaic Britons. Meantime still another ad began appearing in newspapers in U.S. cities: "Student of Anglo-American relations is anxious to know what qualities are most disliked in the British . . ." It proved to be the work of the London Daily Mirror's waspish Columnist Cassandra (William Connor), who could hardly wait to return from his vacation to see what the postman had brought. One of the papers carrying his ad, the Washington Post and Times Herald, published its own reply: "The British are archaic. They cling to worn-out practices. They profess to see virtue in . . . training for public...
...present, we are looking at a confused reflection in a mirror; then we shall see face to face; now, I have only glimpses of knowledge; then, I shall recognize God as he has recognized...
...editors, the "super-colossal bedroom extravaganza." as Hearst's New York Mirror billed it, was a rare opportunity for a slew of headlines, salaciousness and tch-tching that would have been too hot to print under any other guise. When the state read into testimony a dozen whole stories from the magazines, it was the wire services' turn to drool. The wire-room machines gushed juicy details from such Confidential stories as "Eddie Fisher and the Three Chippies," "Mae West's Open-Door Policy!" "Here's Why Frank Sinatra is the Tarzan of the Boudoir...
...head. "I can only hope that when the dust has cleared, the furniture will have shifted a bit." As the week wore on, the letters pouring into his own mailbox gradually turned favorable to Altrincham by a ratio of three to one. Letters to the working-class Daily Mirror were four to one in his favor, and even the middle-class Daily Mail, which at first received a rush of what-a-cad letters, found the mail turning more evenly to the lord as the week went...
Type Casting. Off the bottle at last and on the Examiner rewrite desk, the old pro was a candidate for city editor of Hearst's No. 3 paper (after the New York Mirror, New York Journal-American) within a year. Department heads protested in unison against promoting "that old s.o.b.," but the Examiner's Publisher George Young pronounced: "It's Richardson. That's what that job down there needs...