Word: paged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Newspaper Week, whose annual rituals of rededication are confined in most communities to lukewarm chicken luncheons and canned editorials, Maryland's Union News, Baltimore County's biggest weekly (circ. 12,000), decided this year to give readers a more piquant refresher course in press freedom. In a Page One editorial. Editor-Publisher W. Fen wick Keyser (Yale '35) confided that he put together a "front page which is by way of being a big joke to all of us fortunate people who enjoy the privileges of a free press." The joke: every news story on the page...
...Every Boy's Annual. There he found a description of an intricate cipher invented by Sir Francis Bacon. Already convinced that Bacon was Shakespeare, Donnelly set out to prove that Sir Francis used this cipher in writing the plays. Through an elaborate series of manipulations involving key page numbers, word counts and "root numbers," Donnelly finally "deciphered" such statements as "Seas ill (Cecil) said that More low (Marlowe) or Shak'st spurre (Shakespeare) never writ a word of them," convinced himself that Bacon had written the plays to conceal "the inner history of his times, in cipher...
With new money in the bank to finance ambitious plans for a "new" paper (TIME, Sept. 23), the New York Herald Tribune suggested on its editorial page last week what an editorial page should be about. "Reading most newspaper editorials these days," wrote the new chief of the Trib's editorial page, ex-TIME-and-LiIFE Staffer William J. Miller, "is like eating boiled watermelon. They are dull, even worse, they are bland. Our whole society has become bland. The old-fashioned American capacity for outrage or indignation is so often absent as to seem almost archaic. We intend...
Whether the page would live up to its encouraging prospectus was for time to tell, but it got off to a brisk, bright start. Sharpened and punctuated with illustrations. Herald Tribune editorials subpoenaed the ghost of Joe McCarthy for a satiric soliloquy, thrice peppered Jimmy ("Public Enemy No. 1") Hoffa, cudgeled Yugoslavia's Tito and the New York City board of education, ranged more or less merrily from the World Series to San Marino to Jayne Mansfield's bedipitus. Other dewatermelonization steps: ¶ reprint of a radio essay by CBS Commentator Eric Sevareid reflecting on the recent...
...worked for 14 years carving the altar, which measures 45 ft. in height and 36 ft. in breadth and contains some 200 individual carved figures. The greatest labor and most consummate skill were obviously lavished on the shrine, or central panel (see color page). There at the center of the drama is the dying Virgin Mary, falling with limp hands into the anguished arms of the attending St. James. The two figures, carved from one massive block of wood, have been called "one of the most lyrical compositions of the late Middle Ages...