Word: penciled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...billed as one of the big fights of the summer, but nobody was taken in. Heavyweight Challenger Freddie Beshore, less skillful than stubborn, was never a dashing performer. And pencil-mustached Ezzard Charles, though heavyweight champion of the world (National Boxing Association version, not good...
...column box across its front page, Phoenix' Arizona Republic (circ. 63,016) printed this affecting letter from "just a little boy," supposedly in Miami, Ariz. The morning paper gravely explained that it was breaking its rule against publishing unsigned letters because "this little plea, scrawled and misspelled in pencil on a bit of limp paper, defies routine handling...
...Kewanna, Ind. weekly Observer (circ. 750), Publisher Bill Lyon ran this Page One notice: "The office of the Observer will be closed June 3 due to good fishing conditions. The office door will be left open and paper and pencil will be on the counter for accommodation of patrons who wish to leave news items...
...still-unread portion of the Times on a tilted rack next to his breakfast tray and skimmed through it as he had his bacon & eggs. Now & then he paused to tear out a picture, a story, or a headline, or to circle a word with a red pencil. Done with breakfast and looking over the Times, solicitous Reader Sulzberger donned an expensively tailored grey suit, slipped his neatly folded clippings into his pocket, went downstairs, and in his chauffeurdriven Packard headed for the office. The office is the New York Times, where Arthur Hays Sulzberger is publisher, president and chairman...
...find a way to reach the new Seattle citizens, Rex Allison in 1946 ordered an aerial photographic map of the entire north end. He pored over the map with pencil and compass, soon found that a suburban branch located just outside the city limits would be within twelve minutes' driving time of 275,000 people who spend $500 million every year. Allison sold the idea to Allied Stores Corp. (owner of Bon Marche), then persuaded the Equitable Life Assurance Society to buy $6,000,000 worth of mortgages to help finance a super shopping center...