Word: printings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...common consent, the two best newspapers in America are the New York Times (daily circulation: 803,123) and the Washington Post (530,031) -and they far excel the rest. Most Americans seldom see them, but both are thoroughly read by those on the air or in print who bring others the national news Now the nation's best newspaper has just restyled itself as the New New York Times; and when so pivotal an institution changes, something important is being said about American journalism. It is as if a dignified old lady, much revered in her own stately...
...uncompromisingly thoughtful to read the Times. The only relief in columns of soberly worded dispatches was a crossword puzzle or a chess problem, never a comic strip. Gossip was minimal, scandal sanitized-in keeping with the prim slogan, "All the news that's fit to print." The paper seemed edited for someone with a meticulous interest in the rise and fall of Cabinets in obscure countries. TIME, in its own parvenu days in the shadow of the august Times, used to refer to it saucily, with a mixture of admiration and exasperation, as "the good grey Times...
...cover everything; though it has some good correspondents spotted around the world, it relies a great deal on news services. The Post is a high-wire act. It is less deep, less thorough than the Times, but it has an air. As Bradlee says, "We don't print the truth. We print what we know, what people tell us. So we print lies...
...before I publicly embarrass all you guys n' gals in print, it's time first to declare the co-winners of the Sports Cube Disk Frisk Treasure Chest of Prizes. They are Ed "Don't Bug Me, I've Got My Radio On" Minar of Quincy House and Wendy Anne "Put Number G-18 on, Mac" King of Cambridge. Both over-grown teenagers scored an astonishing 94 correct answers out of 105. As a result, Aronson and I are currently trying to get this Top 40 match made in heaven together...
Finally, to bring matters to a head and your appetite to a loss, Saturday's dinner was that old standby of roast beef au jus, which is served by the kitchens for the same reason that newspapers print big pictures and run columns like this--to take up space. Only kidding now. Please pass the mulligatawny crackers...