Word: papered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...secret, Nadelman was developing a new form of sculpture. His final works, rescued from the obscurity of his Riverdale attic, were the hits of last week's show. Made mostly in plaster or papier-mâché (a mixture of paste and paper pulp), they ranged from life-size figures to tiny dolls. Proof of his brilliance lay in the fact that the tiny ones, of which he did hundreds, had a monumental quality. With their archaic smiles, compactness and classic grace of pose, they looked like quick sketches for heroic statues. But that was not Nadelman...
...credentials, the colonel had none. He was politely whisked away for questioning. After two hours, he came clean; he was no Russian but Reporter John D'Alfonso of the San Diego Journal, wearing a uniform rented from a Hollywood costume shop. He had been assigned by his paper to test "security" at the maneuvers...
...surprise was Page One: to get attention, it was turned sideways. The result was confusing when the paper was spread out, but it was an eye-catcher. What's more, the horizontal Page One solved the problem of Mirror display on Los Angeles' downtown newsstands; racks available to the new afternoon daily were not designed for tabloids...
First-day buyers got a neatly laid-out paper, a weak line of comics, Columnists Billy Rose and Tom Stokes, Edith Gwynn on Hollywood, a sport column by the New York Herald Tribune's Red Smith-and no news to speak...
Publisher Virgil Pinkley and his boss, Times Publisher Norman Chandler, preferred not to raid staffs of papers like the New York Daily News to get tabloid know-how for the jazzy paper they hoped to put out. Instead, they picked up local talent; for a city editor they got florid Ralph ("Casey") Shawhan, an ex-Hearstling who knew the town well but had turned to movie pressagentry five years...