Word: posterity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...each of the stiff-backed chairs in Cincinnati's old Music Hall was a foot-square poster labeled "The Champ." It was a picture of a fierce-eyed John L. Lewis, a cigar cocked in his mouth. The 3,000 delegates to the United Mine Workers Convention smiled in anticipation. John always gave them a roaring, rousing performance, and they knew who would catch it this year: the President...
...afternoon sun shafted down through the skylights of Ottawa's gloomy, barnlike Coliseum. Floodlights played on the poster portraits of Sir Wilfrid Laurier and Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. Twenty-nine years ago Mr. King had taken over from his longtime friend Sir Wilfrid. Now 1,227 delegates to the National Liberal Convention were picking Mr. King's successor...
Final Decree. The Star's first edition would show a new face and format, new talent and backers. Page One, unlike other New York tabs, would change from a poster to a news page. Inside, by Joe Barnes's decree, news and comment would be finally divorced. On the editorial page, run by George Wells, lately of Newsweek, the signed editorials were out; from now on the paper would speak for itself...
...America's Family Magazine" was out to raise a bigger family of readers. Last week, as a recruiting poster, Look ran a double helping of cheesecake on its cover: a hairy-chested youth and a golden-haired girl, lolling in bathing suits more fiction than fact. The whole magazine also had a new look. A new art director, Merle Armitage, had restyled the covers (with a white background), cleaned up the cramped typography, and given the magazine a fresh, well-ventilated...
...Poster Warfare...