Word: monitor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jimmy Hoffa; but in most bars across the Eastern Seaboard, tipplers clamored for the racket-busters over baseball. Even though she was seated a few yards behind the witness chair in the packed Senate caucus room, pert, brunette Ethel Kennedy, wife of Bob, was glued to a portable monitor set. "You can check out the witnesses so much better this way," said Ethel. "You see their very souls on TV." Ethel Kennedy echoes what many viewers had learned during the Army-McCarthy hearings: TV can make the viewer a perceptive reporter...
Rowse also availed himself of Edward L. Bernays' 1952 survey of all daily publishers to pick the "ten best papers" in the country. The ten, listed in order, were New York Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Christian Science Monitor, Louisville Courier-Journal, Kansas City Star, New York Herald-Tribune, Chicago Daily News, Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, and Milwaukee Journal. Rowse omitted only two of these, the Washington and Louisville papers, on the grounds that they were not in key electoral areas...
Generally fair, but slightly biased (the first two in the Democratic direction, the rest in the Republican): Milwaukee Journal (bias mainly in front-page cartoons); St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Chicago Sun-Times; Kansas City Star; Cleveland Plain Dealer; New York Herald Tribune; Portland Oregonian; Christian Science Monitor...
...residents might be interested in the rating of the Boston papers. There were eight major dailies in Boston in 1952. Rowse analyzed three of these in detail, and commented in an early chapter on four others. From this, the order of merit would seem to be: the Christian Science Monitor; the morning and evening Globe; the evening Traveler; the Herald; the Post (now defunct); and lastly the Daily Record...
...Associated Press, United Press, International News Service, New York Times, New York Herald Tribune, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Daily News, Christian Science Monitor, TIME-LIFE...