Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Digest (circ. about 9,000,000). But Johnson's Negro Digest, launched in 1942, was edited exclusively for Negroes. By culling other magazines for thoughtful articles about Negroes and their problems, and running original pieces by such writers as Hodding Carter, Johnson gave his Digest a sober, conscientious tone that was new to the generally sensational, often irresponsible Negro press. By 1945, Digest was such a success that Johnson started Ebony, a LiFE-like picture monthly (TIME, Oct. 1, 1945). As Johnson saw it, "[white] papers only give the extremes in Negro life, the successes or the crimes...
Britain's old King Coel, a Roman puppet of the 3rd Century, may have been a merry old soul, but his daughter Helena was a sober young gentlewoman. She made a proper marriage to the Roman Emperor Constantius Chlorus, and bore him a son who became Constantine the Great. After Constantine had accepted Christianity, the Empress Dowager Helena-by that time a doughty dame of 80 or so-undertook the arduous pilgrimage to Jerusalem. While there, she discovered in an abandoned cistern two baulks of timber which a great part of the Christian world has ever since accepted...
...Never in sober old Asahi's 71 years had there been such a damaging blow to its integrity. In a Page One box next day it ran a profuse apology to its readers. Gravely, Asahi's board of directors met in emergency session, fired not only Nagaoka but his two superiors in Kobe, as well as the managing editor of Asahi's Osaka edition who had relayed the story. Nine other Asahi news executives caught blistering reprimands. Said lanky Kanichiro Shinobu, managing editor of the Tokyo edition and one of those reprimanded: "This is very embarrassing...
Through the Rye. In Youngstown, Ohio, Judge Frank P. Anzellotti dismissed a drunkenness charge against George Shirley when Shirley proved himself sober enough to spell the name of his home town, nearby Punxsutawney, Pa. In Bloomfield Hills, Mich., the charge against Abdulla ben Brahim was reduced from drunken driving to reckless driving when Abdulla proved his sobriety by walking around the police station on his hands...
...issue were crammed with puzzles, games ("Make Your Own Secret Code"), color comics ("The Story of America" by Historian David S. Muzzey) and reprints of such children's classics as Kipling's How the Camel Got His Hump and Stevenson's Escape at Bedtime. Like everything sober-minded George Hecht has published, it looked like a nice mixture of his zeal for child welfare-and profits...