Word: publicize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...critics of the Sundays, 61-year-old Editor Arthur G. Waters of News of the World replies: "We are performing a great public service; we are a mirror of life. Doesn't the simple fact of our great circulation suggest the terrible demand of the average man to know just what his neighbors' next door are doing? [That many] million Englishmen can't be wrong...
When Princess Margaret made headlines last week by smoking in public, the New York Post Home News (circ. 366,286) was the only paper in Manhattan-and probably in the U.S.-to run a picture of the historic event the same day. The Post photograph showed a cigarette drooping gun-moll style from the left side of Princess Margaret's mouth. There was only one thing wrong with this exclusive shot: it was a fake. The Post had reached into its files, pulled out a three-year-old picture, doctored it to fit the news, and run it without...
...SECommissioner since 1947, burly, good-natured Harry McDonald has plugged hard & long for a wider understanding of the securities markets by the public, has a wide understanding himself. He worked his way through the University of Chicago, but after two years in law school, dropped out in favor of selling-first ice cream, then securities. Later, he started Detroit's H. A. McDonald Creamery Co., built it into one of Michigan's biggest dairies. He branched out into investment banking, became a partner in Detroit's McDonald-Moore & Co. (a connection he severed when he joined...
Wherever a tourist goes in Washington, he usually finds that a fellow named McShain has been there before him. Though he lives in Philadelphia, slim, silver-mustached John McShain, 50, has built so many of Washington's public buildings that he has trouble keeping count. Among them: Jefferson Memorial, the new State Department Building, the National Airport terminal and he was the biggest prime contractor of the mammoth Pentagon...
Married. John Boettiger, 49, erstwhile Hearstling (Seattle Post-Intelligencer), now a public relations man for the Dutch government; and arty, brunette Virginia Daly Lunn, 33 ; he for the third time (he was divorced last August by Anna Roosevelt), she for the second; in The Hague...