Word: press
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WHILE the editors this week pay anniversary tribute to a durable American figure (see cover story), I should like to report on another birthday. It was 35 years ago this week that Vol. i, No. i of TIME, The Weekly Newsmagazine, went to press...
...press run for each of the first three issues was 25,000 copies-20,000 for "subscribers" and 5.000 for newsstands. But these subscribers, for the most part, were a special breed and all "from Missouri." President Roy E. Larsen (then circulation manager) had attracted his readers by means of a two-way dare. Take the magazine on free trial for three weeks, he wrote his prospects, and if you like it, send us $5.00 for a year's subscription. Some 9,000 did just that...
...Really Something." Up by about 7:30 each morning, Ike showered, shaved, ate a small steak for breakfast, then pulled a chair up to a coffee table near a fieldstone fireplace to work for an hour or so with Press Secretary James Hagerty. Not all the work was trivial, but neither was it lengthy or taxing, e.g., the President's hand was evident in the latest "summit conference" letter to Russia; he gave final approval to the strong foreign-trade message issued last week, made changes in a foreign-aid speech to be delivered this week. A few times...
...past vacations, Press Secretary
...blared the old Rough Rider song, There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight. But day by day the U.S.'s pell-mell progress and social stresses kept getting ahead of T.R.'s promises of "A Square Deal All Around." T.R. began to press harder against what he called "malefactors of great wealth...