Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...following ads- Boston Garter, Daisy Air Rifle, Chiclets, Holeproof Hosiery, Lea & Perrins, Florsheim Shoes, Van Camp's Pork & Beans, Packard cars, Gold Medal Flour etc., etc. The first 31 words of the first editorial entitled "The Howl and the Howlers," are "Glancing casually over a day's news we learn that investors, not knowing what Roosevelt will do next, fear 'that the little of value that is left to them will soon vanish...
...postman handed me, face up, my copy of TIME [Oct. 17], even in the half-dark hall I could see the good news blazoned across the front cover-"Now you can read TIME on Thursday." Peace, it's wonderful-time was exactly 11:15 Saturday...
...combines vivid journalistic observation with extraordinary imaginative flights, consequently stands out, not only as a novel but as the best piece of reporting that has come out of the Spanish Civil War. And as such it illustrates Malraux's theory of fiction-that the real news of the modern world can be better told in novels than in newspapers; that novelists, if they are to save their art from puerility, must fight for their beliefs, take part in events, and in lulls between the battles jot down their records of what they have actually seen...
...make it appear to be news, a quiet meeting of 300 persons, a few of them students at the University, was transformed into a raging mob of undergraduates, separated from their money by my eloquence and the lure of pretty girls...
...book describes the birth of America's first tabloid, Joseph Medill Patterson's "Illustrated Daily News," which appeared on June 26, 1919, modeled on the already successful English tabloids. It kept on appearing and today it is the largest selling paper in the nation, yet for three years Mr. Hearst never saw in it a potential rival. When he did it was too late. Mr. Bessie then launches into a dry examination of the contents of the "Daily News" down thought the years, showing the tabloid formula and the current (if invisible) trend towards straight news, and concludes with circulation...