Word: newsweek
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...died in Spain, fighting as a member of the International Brigade-the last American to enlist, and the last to be killed. David served as a war correspondent for The New Yorker, was killed in Germany when his jeep ran into a minefield. John is a sports columnist for Newsweek. The fourth brother, Ring Jr., last week went to jail...
...seven-column newspaper ads to compliment itself on attaining a circulation of 850,000, although it was still in & out of the red from week to week. The Cowles brothers' dehydrated news and picture weekly (4 by 6 in.) got a more spontaneous form of flattery last week: Newsweek (circ. 805,461) launched an experimental Quick-sized imitation called People Today. Its editor: Allen Chellas, 39, an alumnus of Parade and Holiday...
John Stewart Service, 35, State Department careerman and sometime U.S. observer at the Red headquarters of Mao Tse-tung; Mark Gayn, 36, journalist (St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Newsweek, TIME), who was then free-lancing for Collier's and the Saturday Evening Post...
Novelist Norris. a senior editor of Newsweek, has set out to write a satire of the times, and he has not quite achieved it; satire calls for a steady hand, a rapier that can reach bone. He does show that he can wield the needle of burlesque with some of the best in the business...
...Triangle Club (amateur theatricals). A native New Yorker, he was graduated into the Depression year of 1932 as a psychology major ("of all things"). Openings in that field being scarce, he took a job demonstrating floor waxers. This led to selling magazine subscriptions and a job on Newsweek addressing envelopes to U.S. Senators. In 1938 Bob Boyd came to work for TIME...