Word: paged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Post's sharpest cut into the elephant's hide appears daily on the editorial page and in 150 other U.S. papers: the brilliant political cartoon by Herblock, 46-year-old Chicago-born Herbert Lawrence Block, No. 1 U.S. cartoonist, two-time Pulitzer Prizewinner. A left-wing Democrat, Herblock almost quit the Post in 1952 because it was supporting Eisenhower, did not do any cartoons for the paper during the week before the election...
...Glut of Side Dishes. For all his first mistakes, Eugene Meyer, known affectionately to his staff as "Butch," worked wonders. He built a national bureau to cover the Government, patterned after the Washington bureaus of the big Manhattan dailies. He developed an editorial page that, under Felix Morley, began at once to show insight and vigor, gain national prestige. By 1946, circulation had more than trebeled...
Kicking off the 1956 drive for funds to support their work, the nation's top cancer investigators reported on progress and problems. Chief among them was Dr. Charles S. Cameron, 47, medical and scientific director of the American Cancer Society, whose new 268-page book for laymen (The Truth About Cancer; Prentice-Hall; $4.95) outlines the symptoms and the treatment of cancer. The book's main point: prompt medical checkups at the first sign of such cancer signals as bleeding, unusual growths can easily double the current U.S. cure rate of 25% in 500,000 new cases...
Robert M. Hutchins, President of the Fund, announced Thursday that the board of directors had allotted $25,000 for preparation and distribution of the revised edition of the 474-page work...
Certainly, too, it seems desirable to educate our leaders better, and to make research an integral part of higher education. But the question must be raised, as Dr. Conant finally raises it on the last page, do the American people want to spend their money on sound education, and if the answer is, as it seems to be, largely negative, then what is needed is a program for selling education, not an argument proving that those who have a good education are better educated...