Word: serially
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eight years ago, he borrowed $3,000 and bought Cheyenne's sickly weekly, the Wyoming Eagle. He converted it into a daily, made it the area's first tabloid and began giving it away free. But later only paid subscribers got a special section of features (comics, serial fiction, etc.). By starting new features first in the free section of the paper, then moving them to the supplement for paid subscribers, he got more and more paid subscribers, finally stopped giving the paper away altogether. The plan worked so well that eleven years after he started, McCraken...
...Shooter (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Western serial, starring Jimmy Stewart...
...magazines, notably the Satevepost. A man who seldom has to raise his head from the typewriter once he begins a story, Kelland can count on a steady out put of 10,000 words a week, working mornings only. This is enough to give the Post one installment of a serial and to give Kelland, at going rates, some $2,000. That leaves the rest of the day for golf, conversation and politics (since 1940, Author Kelland has been Republican National Committeeman for Arizona...
...Bricker amendment serial ran on and on, and Georgia's veteran Democratic Senator Walter George was fed up. When the White House turned down his substitute amendment (TIME, Feb. 8), George rumbled: "There is no hope for compromise now." He took his proposal to the Senate floor and pressed for a vote. But in the U.S. Senate last week, patience was a necessary virtue-and Walter George would have to wait until a few more chapters ran their course. Among last week's episodes...
...terraces of the native quarter. Occasionally, however, the emotional implications of both setting and plot become cloying. A scene in which a fat hag tearfully recalls her past success on the stage turns maudlin, while the murder of an informer has all the qualities of an old time serial...