Word: press
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stations stepped up coverage, read excerpts from the columnists. On Sunday the Times and NBC sponsored an hourlong, live-television news show that carried Timesmen's reports from New York, Washington and Europe. The Spanish-language El Diario began running two pages of news in English, doubled its press run to 140,000, had to turn away advertising. The National Enquirer, weekly sex-and-gossip sheet, put out an extra issue with some news between the covers...
...rushed down from Cambridge with 8,000 copies of a "New York Edition." For their commuter trade, the New York Central mimeographed a neatly capsuled news summary ("Oldest daily railroad commuter newspaper in New York City"). Not to be outdone, the Long Island Rail Road and the Long Island Press displayed news bulletins in Pennsylvania Station. Schrafft's chain with 39 Manhattan restaurants, presented their customers with a news resumé along with their menus...
...stolen from in front of their office doors. No New Yorkers were more dismayed by the strike than the numbers-game players: the payoff number is currently derived from the total mutuel take at Maryland's Pimlico race course, a figure that conveniently is carried by the daily press...
...morning Times (circ. 633,106), Mirror (890,596), News (2,014,542), Herald Tribune (377,400); the afternoon Journal-American (580,006), World-Telegram and Sun (473,732), Post (351,439), Long Island Press (283,967), and Long Island Star-Journal...
...reviewers aboard to hail it-a fate nearly as bad as the common torture of watching the grim-faced judges show up to pan a feared-for turkey. Last week one dreamed terror became real. A strike forced Manhattan's seven major dailies into silence (see PRESS) and only one of the city's four new Broadway plays (S. N. Behrman's The Cold Wind and the Warm) had the full tide of critical scrutiny. Dutifully, reviewers hunched down in aisle seats and saw their appraisals through the typewriter. Theater pressagents soon had mimeographed copies of neatly...