Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only a connecting link with the outside world, but also a comforting buffer against it. Swaying in the subways, slouched in commuter trains, even making a course along the city's crowded sidewalks, he can let in the news and shut out his neighbors by huddling behind his paper. Last week New Yorkers were woefully underread and unprotected. Closed down by a strike of their deliverers were the city's nine major newspapers* with a daily circulation of some...
...which would run pay to $107.82 for a 40-hr. daytime week, plus another boost of $3 a week after a year. The 37% voted down the settlement, 877 to 772, although it had been agreed upon by employers and union negotiators, and the picket lines went up. The papers still managed to get out issues for sale at their buildings. Enterprising newsboys bought copies by the armload, scalped them for as much as $1 each in bars; a record store pushed up its sales 45% by giving away a paper with every purchase. But all the papers finally gave...
...Times Marches On. Coming with the peak of Christmas advertising, the strike was a bitter economic blow for New York papers. By missing its mid-December Sunday issue, the Times alone lost some $1,000,000 in ad revenue. Characteristically, the Times went on in its role as daily recorder of history. A full force of newsmen under Managing Editor Turner Catledge and Assistant M.E. Theodore M. Bernstein went imperturbably through the task of putting out a paper every day, writing copy and headlines, dummying the pages and then sending the work to the morgue instead of the composing room...
...then author of ten books and one of the most authoritative voices of liberalism in the U.S., was invited aboard the then staunchly conservative Herald Tribune as a bylined columnist. The invitation intrigued him. "It was absolutely a new idea," he said. "It was the first time a paper had ever asked someone with opposite views to write...
Francesco Roberti, 69, is one of the church's top canon lawyers, a member of many pontifical academies and commissions. When a Communist paper in 1948 accused him of illegal financial manipulations, Lawyer Roberti promptly sued for libel, and won a decision that sent the reporter to jail for 20 months...