Word: papered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Louis M. Lyons last night praised the Boston Herald-Traveler and the Boston Globe for bringing the Van Waters case and the Plan E controversy to the public's attention. Speaking before a meeting of Nieman Fellows at Littauer Center, he termed the Hearst paper's reporting of the hearings, on the other hand, as "lurid...
...Publisher William Block and Editor Andrew Bernhard were dead set to make the Post-Gazette one of the two, if that was the way it had to be. Young (33), Yale-educated Bill Block inherited the paper from his father, the late Paul Block, in 1941.* He has been trying to cut its ties to the Republican Party and make it an "independent" paper ever since. Bernhard is a calm, competent veteran who came up the hard...
...become managing editor of the Brooklyn Eagle, and five years ago went to Pittsburgh. Since then, the P-G has picked up 50,000 in circulation to hit a top of 300,000, has handily held its position as Pittsburgh's biggest daily. For his Sunday paper, Andy Bernhard has already signed up a new staff, and has bought Parade for his Sunday supplement. He also tripped up the Sun-Telegraph by taking away some of its best comic strips: Dick Tracy, Gasoline Alley, Terry (the PG, which runs them daily, snagged the Sunday rights...
...Brother Paul Jr., 37, is also co-publisher of the Post-Gazette, but spends most of his time running another Block paper, the Toledo (Ohio) Blade...
That left the Zeitung in charge of Editor Kendall Foss, with the three-man board looking over his shoulder. Said Foss: "A satisfactory solution." But the argument had hardly helped the paper's prestige. By week's end, the Zeitung's circulation (542,000) had dropped...