Word: paged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Having made its forecast, the Times was on the streets by 11 o'clock Tuesday night with a soundly written leader on the editorial page congratulating Rockefeller on his victory...
...very day after the Harriman endorsement, Post Publisher Dorothy Schiff in her "Dear Reader" column, wrote warmly of "ebullient" Nelson Rockefeller, pointedly inquired: "Are you sure that Averell Harriman is really the most independent, liberal gubernatorial candidate?" Then on the front page of the final edition, on the night before election, Post readers got a furious Schiff assault on Harriman: "Governor Harriman's recent snide insinuation that Nelson Rockefeller is pro-Arab and anti-Israel should not be condoned by any fair-minded person . . . If you agree with me, do not vote for Averell Harriman tomorrow...
...clash between the personalities of the Premiers of the three regions-each obviously more important than the scholarly Federal Prime Minister, Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa. In Western eyes, Obafemi Awolowo of the Western Region seemed the most statesmanlike: as the conference began, the London Times carried a full-page ad proclaiming his declaration for freedom under the title "This I Believe," prepared with the help of an American public relations man. In contrast, U.S.-educated Premier Nnamdi ("Zik") Azikiwe of the Eastern Region seemed to have learned more in the U.S. about Tammany tactics than Thomas Jefferson, and was somewhat...
This advertisement, with the rare privilege of Page One prominence by the New York Times, got results. One was that a New Yorker now in his mid-70s wrote to the advertiser (the Radioactivity Center of M.I.T.) and told his story. About 30 years ago he was working as a salesman, playing the guitar for relaxation. When he began to feel run down, a friend suggested a radium tonic to pep him up. His doctor saw nothing against it-for these were the days when many medical men were playing fast and loose with radium preparations, knowing and recking nothing...
...with a B.A. in English ("no honors"), got a job cropping pictures for Houghton Mifflin Co. at $16.50 a week. In 1942 she went to work for the Boston Herald as a secretary, wrote an occasional book review so well that she was hired for the book page of the Star in 1947. Mary liked books (she still does some reviewing), but the city room fascinated her. In 1954 the Star's Executive Editor Newbold Noyes Jr. bustled her off to help cover the Army-McCarthy hearings. Advised Noyes: "Write it like a letter to your favorite aunt...