Word: pantographs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your report [March 2] which chides the Pantagraph (and its readers) for carrying world, national and state news on Page One, leaving local news for page three: the Pantograph's departmentalization of news may be unusual among standards adopted "by daily newspapers, but it is the pattern followed by weekly TIME in giving its intelligent readers the news...
...chestnut-shaded house in Bloomington, Ill., with its adjoining pasture and quiet stream, the blue Dresden kerosene lamps were lit when distinguished guests arrived, and roses stood in silver bowls. It was also a high-minded, rather literary world (Adlai's maternal grandfather was publisher of the Bloomington Pantograph). Young Adlai played charades-once he enacted "a sunbeam on a rug"-and listened to his father's serial stories about two characters called Whangdoodle and Whiffenpoof. The saddest moment of Stevenson's childhood-the tragic death of a young girl when a gun Adlai was carrying went...
...close man with a buck, whether it is his or the state's. He is not a poor man. He is said to be worth about half a million dollars, with an income, including his $12,000-a-year salary as governor and dividends from the Bloomington Pantograph stock and other property, of about $50,000 a year...