Word: penned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...News has slid a long way since 1947, when Publisher Manchester Boddy's sharp editorial pen and General Manager Robert Smith's shrewd business sense pushed the paper's circulation to nearly 300,000. But in Los Angeles, where the News is the only pro-Democratic paper among the city's five dailies, the paper did not keep up with the competition, especially that of the breezy, afternoon tabloid Mirror, started in 1948 by Los Angeles Times Publisher Norman Chandler (TIME, Aug. 16, 1948). While the Mirror grew (to 212,903), the News slipped to under...
...This bill is freedom of serfdom for our children," he added, "and it is about time we placed their freedom ahead of those who would overthrow this government by violence, whether that violence is by sword or pen...
...shook my head and looked around the office. The walls were lined with photographs of his numerous before-after triumphs. A red bottle, a green bottle and a pale yellow bottle were ranged artistically along his desk, and a brush in a plastic stand took the place of a pen on his blotter...
...suppose it is useless to reply to your editorial of today and we might as well acknowledge the power of the pen vs. the sword or at any rate its strategic location. However, in the interests of keeping the record straight the following is submitted...
...Star State is the biggest, richest, toughest and most cultured in the land, with the prettiest women; Texans learn all this at their mothers' knees. But last week, in a free-swinging, heavy-handed piece of low humor, Esquire (circ. 819,000) took exception. The article, under the pen name Bernard Dorrity and the title "Let's Secede from Texas," described the state as a "geographical hemorrhoid." Its cotton land "is now poor and desolate," its grazing lands "worthless," its "mean, mangy and narrow" citizens are "boors when sober [and] downright dangerous when drunk." If Texas women...