Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Portland, Ore. doorsteps one morning last week. One story read from right to left, the top and bottom decks of a headline were transposed, the sports-page date was upside down, and the logotype read: THE OREGONIAN OREGON JOURNAL. But what was most surprising of all about the paper was that it appeared at all. It was published jointly by Portland's frequently feuding morning Oregonian (circ. 242,035) and evening Journal (circ. 187,588)-and union employees of both papers were on strike...
...member Stereotypers' Local No. 48, whose key demand was that four-man crews be used on a new German automatic press plate casting machine, designed for operation by one man, that the Oregonian plans to buy. The Journal refused to bargain separately, and the stereotypers walked off both papers, to be followed by members of all the other newspaper unions. At that point the executives, editorial-page writers, ad salesmen, secretaries and other nonunion employees of the Oregonian and the Journal put on yellow aprons and ran off a joint, jury-rig paper on Oregonian presses...
...dingy, fourth-floor Manhattan offices resemble a countinghouse out of Charles Dickens. There is no city room rush, no Teletype staccato. The 27 staffers are mostly elderly women. Yet the weekly German-language Aufbau (Reconstruction) is one of the biggest (circ. 30,129) and most influential foreign-language papers in the U.S. Edited by stocky, effervescent Dr. (of Law) Manfred George, 66, Aufbau is an outstanding example of a paper that has bucked a 50-year-long decline in the U.S. foreign-language press.* This week, as it celebrates its 25th anniversary with a Waldorf dinner, Aufbau can and does...
Because of its personalized approach to its readers, Aufbau has developed a stout reader loyalty, gone far to uphold Editor George's claims that it has grown into "a paper for uprooted people all over the world." Wrote one Aufbau reader: "Gratitude alone would be an important factor in my continuing to read the paper...
Colby roiled in confusion when Connecticut-born Philosopher Bixler arrived in 1942, after teaching at Harvard Divinity School. Founded in 1813, Colby had opened on a pleasant site between the quiet Kennebec River and a country road. A century later, the campus lay suffocating between smelly paper mills and a clanking railroad...