Word: press
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stranded and broke in Paris after World War I, Bernhard got his first newspaper job on the Paris edition of the Chicago Tribune, after a period as a tourist guide. Later he was city editor of the Detroit Free Press, moved on to become managing editor of the Brooklyn Eagle, and five years ago went to Pittsburgh. Since then, the P-G has picked up 50,000 in circulation to hit a top of 300,000, has handily held its position as Pittsburgh's biggest daily. For his Sunday paper, Andy Bernhard has already signed up a new staff...
...Neue Zeitung, the U.S. military government's newspaper in Germany, had been slapped down by the Army for exhibiting too much freedom of the press. Some of its news and feature material had sounded too much like the rumblings of the new German nationalism (TIME, Feb. 7). Last week the Zeitung, the "New York Times of Germany," had its freedom curbed; by order of General Lucius Clay it became virtually a house organ of the military government...
...press of the world had been interested in Amsterdam, reported The Netherlands' Dr. W. A. Visser 't Hooft, general secretary to the World Council, but not all of the press comment had been favorable. Some papers, said Dr. Visser 't Hooft, had criticized Amsterdam severely for being "a bunch of left-wing socialists talking like regular revolutionaries." Others had sneered at "those bourgeois who will never learn that the world is moving on." The Soviet press had attacked the council as "a new powerful center of a political church." Commented Visser 't Hooft: "They...
Home Industries. In Concord, N.H., the State Planning & Development Commission hastened to squelch some ugly rumors with a press release: "... There is no connection between New Hampshire's reputation as [an] outstanding ski state and the fact that [we make] 75% of all wooden crutches...
...pound class--Dolan (D) decisioned Kozol (H), 10-3; 128-pound class--Smith (H) pinned Goldthorpe (D) with an arm lock and body press at 4:38; 136-pound class--Abboud (H) pinned White (D) with a double bar arm at 4:39; 145-pound class--King (H) pinned Rabe (D) with a half nelson and body press at 2:59.5; 155-pound class--Gilmore (D) decisioned Skinner (H), 4-2; 165-pound class--Thompson (H) pinned Donahue (D) with a half nelson and leg hold at 8:15; 175-pound class--Monahan (D) decisioned Connors (H), 5-2; heavyweight...