Word: posted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shiny New Post...
...Spectators at the Washington Post's celebrities' golf tournament were fascinated by the spectacle of Admiral Chester W. Nimitz teeing a golf ball off Actor Edward Arnold's eye while General Dwight D. Eisenhower beamed from the sidelines (see cut). The Admiral didn't swing...
...Morality of Stomachs. In China's new Government Chen holds no job. He exerts his influence in other ways. From his post as Secretary-General of the Kuomintang's Central Political Council ("the politburo"), Chen runs the local party machinery through control of hsien-township-magistrates. Chen's magistrates collect the taxes, confiscate the grain for the armies, run' conscription...
...richest revenue-producing issue in the long history of the oldest U.S. magazine. The Saturday Evening Post that loaded newsstands and stuffed rural mailboxes last week was thick with a thumping $1,625,000 worth of ads. It was not so fat as the 272-page Post of Dec. 7, 1929, in the days when the Post was the top U.S. magazine (in recent years LIFE has led in circulation and advertising revenue). But last week's Post took in more money than 1929's best because the Post's ad rates were...
From the flying cowboy on the cover (see cut) to the gag cartoons in the back of the book, the Saturday Evening Post had changed a lot in 18 years, and generally for the better. There was more fact than fiction on the bill of fare, and the helpings were smaller. Of the ten articles, not one explained a tycoon's secret of success in terms of sobriety, thrift and an 18-hour day. The dowdy "Post Old Style" type was long since gone; clean-cut Bodoni dressed the pages. Up front the hors d'oeuvres included...