Word: prints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Often the stories seemed almost incomprehensible jigsaw fragments except to those aware-as all Eastbourne is-of some rumors that the papers dared not print. For example, on Page One, London's conservative Daily Telegraph merely reported that Hannam had interviewed the 72-year-old mother of Sir John Hunt, who led the Mt. Everest expedition, but offered no clue as to why or what resulted beyond the fact that she "described an incident which occurred at a small bridge party she gave about twelve years ago." Another account told of reports that letters written by relatives to aging...
...tablets. The boldest paper managed to tell much of the story-and even run a picture of the doctor-by a slick trick: it got the doctor's lawyers to approve a sympathetic story that named him as the victim of a malign whispering campaign-and managed to print many of the whispers ("murder") in the course of deploring them...
...some evidence about British journalism. Most Britons and some Americans believe that the country's rigid press laws are superior to U.S. standards. Yet the laws have bred a technique of trumpeting sensation with small regard to facts. The very inability to name a suspect emboldens editors to print gossip and rumor about what he may have done. Whether Eastbourne deaths prove the year's big crime story or an ugly case of slander, the British press will have shown that tough laws may result in puzzling readers, but are no proof against an orgy of sensationalism...
...about $600 million a year. Selling new concessions is a way to get plenty of quick cash. With oilmen flying south on nearly every plane, and with the likes of Texas' Multimillionaire Wheeler-Dealer Clint Murchison settling down in Caracas' Hotel Tamanaco, the Gaceta Oficial will probably print a lot more exciting news in coming months...
...Billy Graham, Marilyn Monroe). But the bulk of them do well on hobbies and special guidance. Sample: Your Hair-Do, How to Buy Air Conditioning, Fix-It Yourself, Complete Guide for Young Marrieds. The magazines sell from 15? to $1, take two months to produce in any quality, usually print at least 100,000 copies and live from three months to a year on the newsstands. Five publishers dominate the field, using small but expert editing and layout staffs and free-lance writers. Only the biggest, Manhattan's Fawcett Publications, Inc., which turns out 55 of a year...