Word: press
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago) team that had not even been seeded. The fans had the unusual sight of a veteran team losing its poise. Two of Kentucky's three all-Americas (Alex Groza and Wah Wah Jones) left the game on fouls; only little Ralph Beard played up to his press clippings...
...themselves, had written a book in his honor and handed it to him at a dinner. Appropriately, the book was a collection of their own scholarly essays on Tinker's Century. The title, affectionately lifted from Tink's old course, was The Age of Johnson (Yale University Press...
...asthma. One out of every two may suffer at one time or another from a minor form, such as simple hives. Beginning with these estimates, Manhattan Allergist Harry Swartz wrote a book, published this week, called Allergy: What It Is and What to Do About It (Rutgers University Press...
S.R.L. thought that booksellers were as much to blame as the papers. Some, it charged, reported slow-selling books as "bestsellers" to step up sales. Others were influenced by "literary snobbishness." S.R.L. suggested an Audit Bureau of Bestsellers, to function something like the press's Audit Bureau of Circulation. It was time "that the book trade cooperated in a certified, scientific, irrefutable system...
...sunny day last week, President Truman lolled on a Key West beach, chatting with Chief Justice Fred Vinson. A Navy blimp buzzed in low. Looking up, Harry Truman saw five White House press photographers taking pictures. He gave them a big wave and a grin...