Word: press
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...European nations before the Salzburg Seminar swept away many misunderstandings, said British Peter Mason, who attended the seminar last summer. "The rich tourists and the movies were the only indicators of the nature of the United States," he explained. "About the only news of America we got in the press" was the elections...
Small colleges will push for the elimination of the free substitution rule when the American Association of Foot ball Coaches convenes in San Francisco on January 4, the Associated Press reported last night. Harvard and grid powerhouses will try to keep...
...press conference called to explain his actions, Rocky gave a convincing demonstration of a man who didn't know what hit him. Why had he quit training? "I had no ambition to throw punches. I'm boxing a couple of salamis and I don't give a damn if I get hit ... I don't know what the hell's the matter with me." Reporters asked him about a walnut-sized lump on his forehead and he said it was a souvenir of the last Tony Zale fight. Was he punchy? Rocky went on: "Every...
...Gazette, which began its 130th year last week, was founded by Printer William Woodruff, who ferried his press from Tennessee by canoe. "Mister J.N." Heiskell, who also came from Tennessee, has run it for the last 46 years. He has fought against governors and utilities, and for equal (but separate) opportunities for Negroes. He hates monopoly journalism; the Gazette once bought the rival Democrat, but Heiskell soon got them divorced. He likes to tell fellow Southern publishers that if they don't spend money to get good editorial pages, they shouldn't blame their readers for not reading...
...Almanac goes to press before any of the usual seasonal signs appear: the nut stores of squirrels, or woollybear caterpillars (TIME, Nov. 8). Mr. Weatherwise just hauls off and predicts.* How in tophet does he do it? This week, in the New York Times Magazine, Almanac Publisher Robb Sagendorph, who does business in Dublin, N.H., stuck his Yankee tongue in his cheek and drawled a few clues...