Word: pm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With a steady outlet for his drawings in The New Yorker and the newspaper PM, Steinberg almost at once set out to see the U.S. coast to coast by train. "Driving is no substitute for the view from the sleeping compartment. The window is like a screen. To arrive at a whistle-stop in Arizona and see Indians at the station, even though they don't have feathers?how expected!" It was, in part, a ballet of fables and stereotypes. Steinberg's America, as confirmed by this trip, proved to be as much an invention as it was in Bertolt...
Maybe it happened too soon. Three months, 62 issues and $4 million later, its paid circulation running as low as 50,000, the Trib last week went the way of the Sun, the World, PM, the Mirror, the Journal-American, the World-Telegram, the Herald Tribune and the hybrid World Journal Tribune. Leonard Saffir, the paper's founder, publisher and editor in chief, blamed the severe winter for hampering distribution and timorous department stores for failing to advertise in the tabloid. "It was the community that put this paper out of business," fumed Saffir in a farewell address...
Baseball vs. Boston College, 3 pm, Soldiers Field...
Women's J.V. Tennis vs. Simmons, 3 pm, Palmer Dixon Courts...
Friday, January 27: Concert: Cambridge Chamber Players with Joseph Silverstein, Violin and Andrew Wolf, Piano, 8:30 pm, admission $4, $3 with student...