Word: mirroring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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British sportswriters made remarkably uncricket exhibitions of themselves. Wrote the Daily Mirror's Peter Wilson: "We took them by the throat and scruff . . . We took them neck and crop, bag and baggage, hip and thigh, skin and bone, and we bundled them out . . ." Retorted an Aussie writer: "No trumpets yet, England...
...London last week, the world's biggest daily, the tabloid Mirror (circ. 4,432,700) got out its three-inch type for a single banner headline: WOMEN. In smaller type, the Mirror added: Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey, the World's No. 1 Sexo-analyst, Blows the Gaff Today on All About Eve. Indiana's Dr. Alfred Kinsey was not alone in blowing the gaff. K-day -the prearranged release date* for a summary of his book on Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (TIME, Aug. 24)-set off the biggest and raciest commotion the world...
...highly classified. The book: Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, by Alfred C. Kinsey and the staff of the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University. Its chief author calls it simply "the female volume," and writes this "♂vol.," using the scientist's universal symbol, the mirror of Venus, for the female. For the male he uses &# 9792;, the arrow of Mars...
Winners ranged from filling station attendants to doormen, from airplane riveters to landladies. Most of the "Lucky Buckaroos" came in happily to have their pictures taken, bills streaming from their ears or swirling around their heads. Mirror Publisher Charles McCabe was just as happy; July circulation was above normal...
...keep the contest from being an illegal lottery, the Mirror was careful to specify: "It is not necessary to buy copies of the Mirror to win an award. You may inspect a copy of the paper free . . ." But all over the Mirror circulation area, and as far away as Miami, Fla. (where a treasure hunter spotted a Lucky Buck originally spent in a White Plains store), people were buying the tabloid to compare its numbers with their dollars. Lucky Bucks not redeemed in seven days lost their magic; after that, they were worth 100 cents...