Word: mirroring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the summer doldrums, newspapers give away free dishes, free trips to Miami, free encyclopedias, free almost anything-just to keep circulation going. This summer, Hearst's tabloid New York Mirror is simply giving away money. By last week, after one month of its "Lucky Bucks Treasure Hunt," the Mirror had tossed out some...
...rules of the treasure hunt are simple. Each day the Mirror prints the serial numbers of 14 to 19 "Lucky Bucks": dollar bills put into circulation via gas stations, food counters, newsstands, department stores, taxicabs, etc. Anyone who spots a Lucky Buck can claim his treasure -ranging from $25 for an ordinary Lucky Buck to $1,000 for the "giant" variety...
...faces he put on canvas, Rembrandt van Rijn was fondest of the one he saw in his own mirror. Experts have identified about 60 Rembrandt self-portraits, which have been cropping up in strange places ever since the master died in 1669. Last week another of Rembrandt's self-portraits was in the news, with a typical tale of mystery attached...
Some members of the L.A. board began to switch sides. Finally, last week, just before the plan was to go into effect, Stoddard withdrew his plan, and with considerable relief, the board voted to drop the whole idea. Mused the Los Angeles Mirror: "They shout 'shortage of teachers' and then turn down a ... grant . . . which would have added 90 teachers a year to the Los Angeles public school staff . . . Some 100 other American cities have accepted Ford Foundation grants without being contaminated...
...year ago, in the North Korean town of Kaichun, a native woman of 40 politely addressed Philip Deane as "grandfather." Deane, still under 30, felt a little hurt. Then he looked in a mirror and was shocked by what he saw. But by that time he had already been a prisoner of the North Koreans for two years...