Word: monitors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Idealistic Start. The Monitor was launched Nov. 25, 1908, a few months after the late Mary Baker Glover Eddy, Christian Science's founder, shocked at the sensational newspapers of that day, wrote her Board of Trustees: "It is my request that you start a daily newspaper...
...there be no delay. . . ." Today the Monitor is published in a block-big, sedate Boston palace that looks more like a bank than a newspaper plant...
Caring little for profit, the Monitor annually rejects close to $1,000,000 in advertisements it does not consider whole some (coffee, tea, liquor, tobacco ads; ads for tombstones, firearms; ads containing the abbreviation "Xmas"). Despite this policy the Monitor has made money. In its best year, 1929, it netted $400,000. In the past few years, because war has cut off overseas advertisers and subscribers, the Monitor has been losing a little...
...runs the show is scholarly, affable, 37-year-old Erwin Dain ("Spike") Canham, one of the nation's ablest news men. A Christian Scientist and a Rhodes scholar, he worked for the Monitor over seas and in Washington before promotion to his present job three years...
Realistic Finish. Perhaps the toughest part of Spike Canham's job was to get out a newspaper in the face of the Monitor's old religious taboos against mention of such things as death, disease, disaster, crime. To Christian Scientists these are "error." The Monitor often had to perform journalistic acrobatics to print the news. Once, unable to say "dead," a Monitor writer referred to "passed-on mules...