Word: sensationalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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To 125 students at Carleton College, Northfield, Minn., Executive Editor Gideon Seymour of the Cowles brothers' Minneapolis Star and Tribune (combined circ. 105,332) last week gave his considered opinion on certain columnists. "They are all journalistic racketeers-I mean pitchmen," said Editor Seymour. "They are like the oldtime...
Latter-day Harvard coaches who introduced new plays for the Yale game had nothing on co-mentors Stewart and Lake, who, in 1893, outfitted their charges in shiny leather suits. One of the main reasons for the suits was said to lesson the weight a player would have to carry...
In the evening editions, which compete chiefly with Hearst's Herald-American, young Field stuck to the old formula: readers got the tabloid mixture as before, with the big play on crime, sex and sensation.
At week's end, Parisians, like Londoners, had joined the lunacy wholeheartedly. Said the Paris theater manager: "The greatest sensation the American theater has ever given France." Streetcar still had stops to make in Germany, Austria, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, Switzerland and Australia.
All over Italy, schemes were being made to cash in on the first Holy Year since 1933 (TIME, June 6). As far away as Taranto, a businessman planned to make a killing with beer bottles made in the shape of St. Peter's basilica. (Rome's patent office...