Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reaffirmed its 1952 pro-Ike stand despite the switch of its brother paper, the Toledo Blade, to Stevenson (TIME...
...taking over the Guardian's leather-and.-mahogany sanctum, Scotsman Hetherington will find the paper at the peak of its power. In his twelve-year regime, a short one as Guardian editors go, Wadsworth trebled circulation (to 167,000) and challenged the London Times in the influence of its editorial voice. He swept the clutter of classified ads off the front page, launched an international weekly airmail edition (circ. 37,744), watched advertising and circulation spread to make the Guardian Britain's only national daily published outside London...
Side of the Angels. Wadsworth imbued the Guardian with his own puckishness, his donnish verbosity, his love for the elegant phrase. The paper often exasperates other newsmen with its quill-pen essayist's approach to the day's hard news, is designed for those who lounge as they read. It often irritates politicians with toplofty editorials suggesting that the paper is not only on the side of the angels but right alongside them in heaven. Snorted Winston Churchill in 1950: "What a remarkable position of superiority...
...road. It opposed the Boer War, losing almost a quarter of its circulation and requiring its reporters to take police escorts to work; it fought for Irish home rule when anti-Irish riots threatened in Manchester; it opposed Britain's entry into World War I. Under Wadsworth the paper, a nonprofit-making trust, switched its support from Labor to Tories as it deemed fit, fought British policy on Cyprus and Suez, roasted the U.S. for McCarthyism. It is a strong supporter of Adlai Stevenson, is cool toward the Eisenhower Administration and often angrily critical...
...London's Morning Chronicle reported a terrible tale. Naming no names, the paper described how a certain young lady of Holborn had "seized a case knife laying on the table'' and "with loud shrieks, pierced to the heart" her "helpless infirm mother." The jury's verdict: "lunacy." The Chronicle added a careful note: the report "that she has an insane brother also in confinement is without foundation...