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Word: pantagraph (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...skull; a quick smile, a rueful laugh, eyes that are inclined to bulge. Is a serious, thinking, worrying, hard-working,, self-criticizing introvert. A frugal man, he has an income of about $50,000 a year (mostly from his one-fourth interest in the Bloomington, Ill. Daily Pantagraph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT | 8/4/1952 | See Source »

Between Harvard and Northwestern, Stevenson worked for 18 months as a reporter and editor on the Bloomington Daily Pantagraph, owned by his mother's family. He still owns a quarter-interest in that prosperous county paper, and gets most of his income from it. After he got his degree from Northwestern, he went to Russia in an effort to interview Russian Foreign Minister Chicherin, who had refused to talk to foreign correspondents. No interview, but an interesting trip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: Sir Galahad & the Pols | 1/28/1952 | See Source »

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