Word: mirrorings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lindbergh led the way, having discovered from, the air a hitherto unknown path. Last weekend Col. Lindbergh paid a visit to Professor Robert Hutchings Goddard of Clark University (Worcester, Mass.) to learn more about high altitude rocket experiments (TIME. July 29). Said Informaniac Walter Winchell in the New York Mirror: "Of course it will be vigorously denied, but the Col. Chas. A. Lindberghs (Anne Morrow) anticipate a blessed event." General John Joseph Pershing, returning to the U. S. from France after eight months of work for the Battle Monuments Commission, said that he contemplated writing his memoirs. Mr. & Mrs. Hiram...
...orators in the grammar schools and as premiums in grocery stores to drum up patriotism. After the war the firm exploited and illustrated early frontier anecdotes, railroad sagas, Mississippi River steamboat races. They flooded the country with pictures of George Washington at home, baby looking at mama in the mirror and saying "It's Mama," baby looking sadly at mama and saying. "Where's papa?" With the advent of such high-pressure imitators as the Police Gazette and cigaret-coupons, the firm died...
...been enough, Mr. Hearst has five sons to keep his tracks fresh long after he is gone. The eldest son, plump 25-year-old George, is well along the way as Publisher of the San Francisco Examiner, oldest of Hearst newspapers, after experience as Editor of the New York Mirror (since sold by Hearst) and President of the New York American. The second son, his father's namesake, is only 22 but already his thin young face wears deep marks of experience and looks like his sire's from the side...
...Hearst scions in their father's world has not been meteoric but deliberately, parentally calculated. They have had to work in their school vacations. At 17, William Randolph Jr. worked as a union "fly boy" (pulling papers from the presses) in the press room of the New York Mirror. Then he was a reporter on the San Francisco Call. Last year he left the University of California to go to Manhattan as police reporter for the American, became city hall reporter, then worked across the desk from Editor Stanton Arthur Coblentz until his father thought him ready to learn...
Short but raucous has been the life of the tabloid Manhattan pornoGraphic. Unlucky lately has been its Publisher Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden. Last June, Colyumist Walter Winchell left him for the New York Mirror, a rival tabloid; last July, Editor Emile Henry Gauvreau did the same (TIME, June 17, July 29). Last week, Editor Louis Weitzenkorn deepened the rut by following their examples. But not to the Mirror did Editor Weitzenkorn wend his editorial steps. Said he: to Paris will I go with my wife and dog, devote my time to creative writing...