Word: paged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Full Coverage. The Times gave the hearings the kind of full, deadpan coverage its readers expect, letting the story run from 4 to 5½ columns a day. But on the editorial page it angrily attacked the Eastland subcommittee and Counsel Sourwine, a protege of Nevada's late Senator Pat McCarran, with the kind of fighting words its readers rarely see. The editorial, "The Voice of a Free Press," brought hundreds of letters from readers (8 to 1 in favor). Excerpts...
...Worker always liked to accommodate its friends. Once a woman representing a Communist front came in to demand a front-page story on a money-raising women's bazaar-and with a banner headline, too. In his simple bourgeois way, Managing Editor Glaser scoffed: "You can't have an eight-column line on a bazaar." But, after Eisler intervened, that was just how the story...
...entertainment trade sheet Variety each week decrees which pop songs are hits on the basis of surveys and polls. Last week it published its 4 Ib. 1½ oz., 514-page 50th anniversary number, and tried something harder: picking the top hits of the half century. The list, chosen by Columnist Jim Walsh on the basis of originality, catchiness or sales figures: In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree, School Days, Casey Jones, Down by the Old Mill Stream, Let Me Call You Sweetheart, Alexander's Ragtime Band, I Want a Girl, Waiting for the Robert...
There is an unusual amount of art in this issue, mostly by Midgette, whose Magi cover is the best since the advent of the "architectural" cover. The Advocate is also blessed with a very colorful full-page cigarette ad. --FRANK R. SAFFORD
...newspaper offices large and small across the U.S. the shortage of newsprint was pinching hard. The North East (Pa.) Breeze dropped its editorial page ("Some people don't agree with it anyway," said the publisher philosophically). In Syracuse, N.Y., the Her aid-Journal dropped all classified advertising in its early editions. In Denver, for the second week running, one day's issue of the Rocky Mountain News dropped all advertising...