Word: paper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some ways, the Star is a paper of paradoxes. Many city-room staffers have to walk to a central table to make a phone call, but simply by flipping a switch on his desk, the assignment editor can put himself in instant radio touch with staffers manning the fleet of editorial cars or flying off to a story by chartered plane. The phalanx of city-room desks is liberally speckled with grey heads, most of them belonging to veterans of the staff-owned paper who cannot bear to part with their Star stock holdings, which must be cashed in when...
...Star and the Times have other problems. In recent years, as mounting costs forced the subscription rate up, both papers suffered the circulation loss inevitable in a rural area where thrift-conscious farmers are inclined to drop the big-city paper rather than pay more. Together, the Star and the Times have 671,188 subscribers today, down some 40,000 since 1949. Staffers wonder, too, who will take over when Roy Roberts decides to retire. His key editors have worked long years in his shadow; behind him stands no one groomed to take his place...
Just before the final curtain at a Broadway opening one night last week, the theater critic of the New York Times, a mild, slender, unassuming man with steel-rimmed spectacles and a grey mustache, slipped inconspicuously out of the Lyceum Theater and walked two blocks back to his paper. He settled into his chair on the third floor of the Times building on 43rd Street, and following the practice of years, spread out the theater program, a dozen freshly pointed pencils and a legal-size pad of lined paper. Then, writing by hand, one paragraph at a time-each snatched...
...stereotype of the typical Englishman is changing; the 'new Englishman' lives in a home with central heating, drinks canned beer or soda pop while watching television (having just eaten a wimpyburger), has corn flakes for breakfast, washes with Lux soap, dries his hands on a paper towel and has an ice-cream bar for a snack...
...Franklin during these years was journalism, and it is Franklin the journalist who dominates this book. There are the Addisonian "Silence Dogood" letters with their gently satiric barbs at Harvard College, bits of local gossip, humorous anecdotes, and a masterful and intricate essay on the value of a paper currency. In the profoundest sense, Franklin began a lifelong dialogue with his fellow Americans on their democratic destiny ("In those wretched Countries where a Man cannot call his Tongue his own, he can scarce call any Thing else his own"). But entertainment always had priority on instruction. None of the humor...