Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John Foster Dulles lay dying, it was Dwight Eisenhower who laid down the strong, plain line in a television address to the nation: "We have no intention of forgetting our rights or of deserting a free people. Free men have, before this, died for so-called 'scraps of paper' which represented duty and honor and freedom...
...Continental alter ego, the picture is far different. Last week, following a pattern of years, the European edition of the Herald Tribune splashed prosperously across 45 countries, in each of which it enjoys something close to dominance. The European Trib is not only the biggest English-language paper on the Continent, but it also consistently makes money (about $100,000 before taxes last year, v. an estimated $2,000,000 loss by its New York parent...
Whatever the reason, Columbia has one set of listeners singing along in earnest-its competitors at RCA Victor. By last week, Victor had three imitations in the stores, lavish albums lined with paper that looks like the kind used for $20 bills. Hum and Strum Along with Chet Akins, the Robert Shaw Chorale's Stephen Foster Song Book, and Words and Music with the Ames Brothers include booklets giving not only the words but also piano or ukulele and guitar chords...
Winded not only by the morning Chronicle's lively sprint but by a costly competition for an afternoon market big enough for only one, San Francisco's two evening papers last week gave up vying and merged. The union welds weak links of two big newspaper chains: Hearst's Call-Bulletin (circ. 145,070) and Scripps-Howard's News (circ. 98,808). Since each paper had been losing an estimated $1,000,000 a year, the merger was aptly characterized by a Hearst staffer. "Imagine," he said, "being kicked to death by a dead horse...
...paper, to be published daily except Sunday as the News-Call Bulletin, will be run editorially by Scripps-Howard, leaving the business operation under Hearstmen. Unaffected by the consolidation : Hearst's morning Examiner, still the biggest paper in town (circ. 263,500, or 27,020 more than the Chronicle...