Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stilt plover, a breed seldom seen in Italy, which migrates each fall from Arctic Siberia to North Africa. On the bird's right leg Lamia found a glass vial containing a message, written in Italian with scrawled capital letters on both sides of an eight-inch strip of paper. On orders of the Ministry of the Interior, the paper was painstakingly analyzed, determined to be of Russian manufacture. The message: "Many messages but no hope. For 13 years we have been working as slaves in mines. These men have slit eyes. One dies like...
...Herb Caen strolled over to Hearst's Examiner, changed the name of his column (from "It's News to Me" to "Baghdad-by-the-Bay"), and nearly doubled his salary (to $30,000). Last week Columnist Caen announced gleefully that he was going back to his old paper-at his new price. The Chronicle's normally tight management not only agreed to match Caen's Hearst paycheck, now up to $38,000, but promised him a raise next year as well. Starting date: Jan. 15, when his present contract expires...
Like many of his readers who felt that his nimble style was showing signs of middle-aged spread at Hearst's board, Columnist Caen was delighted at the prospect of returning to the free-and-easy atmosphere of his old paper. Grinned he: "I guess I'm a Chronicle snob...
...among the first Germans to win an Allied license to start a magazine. With profits from Hör zu! he launched Hamburger Abendblatt, his first daily, in 1948, and five years later won out over 16 other bidders when the British decided to sell their occupation paper Die Welt (for an estimated...
...content with keeping Mochtar Lubis out of circulation-and out of print-Sukarno's government has shut down his crusading paper three times in less than a year. From the day of Lubis' arrest, anti-Communist Indonesia Raya (circ. 40,000), the nation's leading independent daily, started carrying a Page One box each morning reminding readers of its editor's arbitrary imprisonment. Ordered last month to drop the box, Raya pointedly substituted three inches of white space, plus another big gap where it would normally have carried an editorial explaining the omission...