Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...special inducement to freshmen, Sloane has concluded an arrangement with Norman W. Fradd, Director of Physical Training, whereby Yardlings purchasing tickets will get a slip of paper good for one required...
Specialties. While some rivals tried to link the new paper to the discredited tradition, Le Temps set its sights high in the better postwar tradition of French journalism. Under Philippe Boegner, 46, a veteran of France's top picture magazine, Paris-Match (circ. 1,500,000), as well as newspapering, Le Temps pledged its independence of any party or clique. Domestically, Le Temps takes a politically conservative line; abroad, it is friendly to the U.S. and Western unity. One of Boegner's innovations is an editorial page separate from news columns...
...shrewd combination of its opposition's specialties: a double page of foreign news (rivaling France-Soir), lots of features from birth control to Stalin's crimes (to compete with Paris-Presse), three pages of financial news (to offset Le Monde). Right from the start, the new paper's circulation topped that of Le Figaro (circ. 475,000), the morning bible of France's upper middle class. Whatever its own future, Le Temps' spectacular start put the whole Paris press on its mettle...
...chairman had to rap for order as newcomers jostled for standing room. Clearly, they had not come to hear the speaker's closing remarks on "Protein Composition of Rat Uterine Luminal Fluid," but to be on hand for the American Physiological Society's next and daring paper: "Physiological Responses During Coitus in the Human...
...land mines of life blowing up all around them. Having told himself, "I must under no condition marry this girl," Chick does marry his beautiful but dumb childhood sweetheart, Crystal. What is more, babies follow. Chick's father-in-law, who runs the advice column for the local paper, gets him a job writing Pepigrams ("All work and no play make Jack"). And then the old boy dies "on third" of a heart attack during a charity softball game, and Chick inherits the advice column...