Word: paged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which side could kick it between the goal posts six times, the U.S. game of football has undergone almost as many changes as women's hats. Last week when the American Football Coaches Association met in Chicago for their annual rule-tinkering, they wrote an extraordinary page into the annals of the sport. The world might be going politically and economically arsy-versy, but the coaches failed to recommend a single major football change for 1939. Said President-elect Lou Little (Columbia): "The coaches feel a nice balance has been reached between offense and defense...
...Timesman who-looks like a character from The Front Page, has been a speed skater, cyclist, jockey, milkwagon driver, chemist, mathematician, perfume manufacturer and aviator...
...coal, has begun to educate Boston. When newspapers there began yelling for Granville Hicks's resignation because he made a fundraising speech for the New Masses, Fellow Lahey defended him with a letter which exposed some city editors' secrets and made the Transcript front page: "Twenty-five cents in telephone calls from a newspaper office will create a 'public clamor'. . . . Every newspaper office has a standing list of windbags who will express an opinion on anything...
...World, official organ of the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago (presided over by George Cardinal Mundelein), appeared the following front-page message: A happy and blessed Christmas to all our readers and a special prayer and word of encouragement to the Hearst employes who are on strike...
...Richmond, Va., 103 years ago, a struggling 64-page magazine called the Southern Literary Messenger, then a year old, published a short story called Berenice. It was by an unknown 26-year-old writer named Edgar Allan Poe, who had been recommended to the editor, as "very clever with his pen . . . highly imaginative and a little terrific." Shortly afterwards, at a salary of $10 a week, Poe became editor of the Messenger...