Word: paged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...star rose in the West, he picked up a manager, secretaries, a red Thunderbird, a nightclub, a pet puma and a passion for yoga and Zen. He became the hottest gossip item in town, made front-page headlines when he smashed into a police captain's sister, was dubbed "TV's Bad Boy" by the columnists. Wrote one: "Don is taking a Rorschach inkblot test at Stanford to find out why he's so clever, amusing, successful and miserable." His own psychiatrist told him: "If I told you what's wrong with you, you would never...
Even more than most of the U.S. press, Philadelphia's twice-weekly Tribune found front-page copy in the ordeal of William Edward Myers Jr., 34, a refrigerator-equipment tester, after he moved his wife and three children into a three-bedroom house in Levittown, Pa. The Myerses are Negroes, the first to move into Levittown* and the Tribune, a Negro paper only 21 miles away, gave all-out coverage to the tense week in which state troopers finally discouraged the jeering, stone-throwing mob that kept badgering the Myers home...
Last week, with the crisis clearly ended, the Tribune still found space on Page One for three stories about the Myerses but even those yielded the lead position to an unusual real-estate story suggested by Publisher E. Washington Rhodes, 61, onetime Pennsylvania legislator, state parole board member, and the first Negro to serve as an assistant U.S. Attorney in the area. In two full columns, jumping to a column inside, the paper listed the addresses, prices and brief descriptions of 187 Levittown houses being offered for sale by the Veterans Administration, which has foreclosed on defaulted mortgages. Reported...
...oldest name in New Mexico newspapering is borne proudly by El Crepús-culo de la Libertad (The Dawn of. Liberty), a twelve-page weekly in Taos (pop. 1,815), whose delirious typography and dissonant trio of editorial voices more often suggest the dawn of anarchy. Fondly known to its 2,505 subscribers as "El Creeps," the paper was started in 1835 by a Mexican priest. Today it still has an unusual publisher-editor: wealthy Bostonian Edward Clark Cabot...
England Mutual Life Insurance Co. called its tightly packed offset paper The Spare Wheel ("For Use in Emergencies Only"), noted on Page One that its 30-odd news items a day, "unless otherwise indicated, are furnished via the international wires of the United Press...