Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discreet, but they began some hard thinking about the future. They stressed probable obstacles to electronic distribution of a national newspaper e.g., the opposition of the typographical unions, the problem of handling local advertising. Times Managing Editor Turner Catledge who pronounced the experiment a technical success granted that the paper had not yet thought through such problems. But he said that the Times was looking ahead to distributing its editions not only in the U.S., but all around the world...
...morning daily had been forced by sheer lack of cash to stop publishing. But this time self-made Financier Fox, 49, did not come back to the controls. He stepped aside by declaring the Post bankrupt, and three court-appointed trustees began trying to dig the paper out of its $2.2 million pile of debts...
After arranging a $500,000 loan from a Manhattan bank to get the paper started again, the trustees persuaded 850 employees to come back to work without immediately getting a month's back wages $187,000. With no change in the editorial direction, the trustees hope to keep the Post going long enough to plan its reorganization and woo a buyer. But the paper had already lost some of its features, staffers and circulation (240,000 before it closed down) to other Boston dailies. After running downhill at a fast clip under Fox's four-year control (TIME...
...assigned instead to an insane asylum where 100 overworked nuns cared for 1,000 female patients. There she tended a countess who thought she was a dog and ate from a plate in the center of the floor, a onetime abbess whose chief quirk was to wear a brown-paper bag on her head night and day, and a dementia praecox case who thought she was the Archangel Gabriel and nearly succeeded in strangling Gabrielle to death...
When 2,600 shouting delegates and alternates demonstrated their approval of Republican candidates in San Francisco last week, a flurry of blue-lettered "I Like Ike" paper caps danced before the television cameras. The man behind the caps is not a politician, but a hamburger king-Edgar Waldo ("Billy") Ingram of the White Castle System (1955 gross...