Word: print
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Page after page of the Star was given over to outright plugging for the Liberal Party. No story about the Tories got into print unless it could be made an insult. When Tory Leader George Drew was well received in the Maritimes, the Star ignored it. When boos were heard at a Drew meeting in Halifax, the Star rediscovered him and played up the boos...
Pistol Packer. Last week Gould got his first real taste of the agrarian democrats' medicine-Chinese Communist staffers locked him in his office until midnight after he rejected their wage demands. Next day, when he wrote a story about the row, the workers refused to print the Post unless he dropped his "distorted" account and stopped "helping the bandit Chiang resist the People's Revolution." That convinced Gould that he could "no longer run an American newspaper in the American tradition," and he suspended the Post indefinitely...
...protect the identity of tipsters, the Sun-Times told them to "sign" their letters with six-digit numbers and tear off a jagged corner of the page; when a murderer is convicted, the newspaper will print the "winning" number and the tipster can present the missing piece of paper and claim his $5,000 reward. The Los Angeles Mirror (TIME, June 13) has copied the Sun-Times scheme...
...subject of the newest book by Edward Streeter, Manhattan banker and author of such occasional studies of U.S. types as Dere Mable (the World War I doughboy) and Daily Except Sundays (the harassed commuter). Father is one of the best of the Streeter studies: a simple-sentence, large-print piece of summer reading, as easy to absorb as sunshine...
...author. I submit that he is often considerably more, and with this I pass into silence, pausing only to express the heartfelt hope that persons of excessive gravity will not read this book. If they do, they will put it to death, and it will go out of print as fast, and with as little reason, as did the works from which it has been culled...