Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Japanese cherry trees last week, a shabby, middle-aged woman attracted no attention when she entered the line of sightseers winding through the White House one morning. Tucked under her arm was a folded newspaper; in the fold were three matchboxes, a crumpled packet of cellophane and paper napkins...
...crossroads of history, the same familiar sight greets the sleepy eye. Across the presidential breakfast tray and over the coverlets and coffee cups of the most influential people in the world's most influential city looms the capital's most influential paper: the Washington Post and Times-Herald (circ. 381,687 daily, 412,121 Sunday...
...Post is not so complete a newspaper as the New York Times (which, with the Herald Tribune, also reaches President Eisenhower's bedside), or so good a paper as the Baltimore Sun, which also gets to Washington at breakfast time. Over the long haul, until last year, it has not been so successful as Washington's ad-fat evening Star (circ. 250,086), long favored by the home-grown Washingtonians, from the society-conscious cliff dwellers to the civil service folk, who do the Government's housekeeping...
...capital's only morning paper, the Post makes its impact on official Washington at both the right place and the right time-in the pause before the daily scurry through the bureaucratic and political brambles. "Of all the American newspapers," Britain's Lord Northcliffe (London Daily Mail) once said, "I would prefer to own the Washington Post because it reaches the breakfast tables of the members of Congress...
...Post's sharpest cut into the elephant's hide appears daily on the editorial page and in 150 other U.S. papers: the brilliant political cartoon by Herblock, 46-year-old Chicago-born Herbert Lawrence Block, No. 1 U.S. cartoonist, two-time Pulitzer Prizewinner. A left-wing Democrat, Herblock almost quit the Post in 1952 because it was supporting Eisenhower, did not do any cartoons for the paper during the week before the election...