Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...photographer who aimed at him, Father Gedeon hurled a glass of beer, making a news-picture of the week (see cut. p. 68). Police pulled him out of bed after three hours' sleep one morning, grilled him nonstop, with time out only to attend the funeral of the murdered women, for 33 hours. His alibi had obvious gaps. Although neighbors had heard screams the murder night, the dead women's Pekingese had not barked, must have known the strangler. Despite his wispy build and his age (54), the upholsterer had unusually powerful hands. The police questioned...
Getting circulation by giving away books is one of publishing's oldest tricks. Three years ago a premium war in England (TIME, Sept. 25. 1933) threatened to ruin London's four biggest dailies"the Express, Herald, and Mail and News Chronicle- until a truce was struck. The current rebirth of the idea among U. S. newspapers was no accident. Two years ago Publisher David Stern revived it with success for his New York Post and Philadelphia Record...
...annual award for the best-looking front page among 130 newspapers with 50,000 circulation or over; second: New York Herald Tribune; third: Des Moines Tribune. Among 365 newspapers of 10,000 to 50,000 circulation, first prize went to the Miami, Fla. Herald; second: Glendale, Calif. News Press; third: Hartford, Conn. Courant. †"Neotrist," invented from the Greek, meaning a person who stays young...
...anticipate a price of something like $57 a short ton, which is preparatory to $65 for 1939. A price of $65 is not unusual or excessive. In 1925 the price in Canada was $75, although then there was nothing like the demand for pulp for other than news print purposes that there is today. Demand has definitely overtaken supply, and if there is no major international disturb ance, there is nothing can avert an acute shortage in five years' time...
...Writing. To say that Virginia Woolf writes well will hardly be news to anyone who reads contemporary literature. But it is sometimes hard to tell whether she is writing prose or poetry. Such a book as The Waves (TIME, Oct. 19, 1931), for instance, is not only in the mood but in the manner of poetry, flagrantly trespassing on poetry's ground. The Years has fewer of these ambiguously-styled passages than To the Lighthouse or The Waves, but they appear now & then. Sometimes they are onomatopoetic: "And the walloping Oxford bells, turning over and over like slow porpoises...