Word: star
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Francis Scott (The Star-Spangled Banner) Key was finally about to take his place in distinguished company: Congress voted to build him a monument in Washington...
...solace of pushed-around people, had never made the grade either as a business proposition or as a newspaper. One day this week, seven weeks after Attorney Bartley Crum and Newsman Joseph Barnes took it over from disheartened Marshall Field (TIME, May 10), PM became the New York Star...
...indicative of the new team's thinking that the Star's first gleam was timed to coincide with the news-heavy Republican convention-a consideration that would never have moved the old, pink-eyed PM. The paper now has only a puny 90,000 circulation in New York City. About 2,900 of its 125,000 copies go to Philadelphia, and Crum & Barnes want to get 50,000 readers away from Philadelphia's Inquirer and Bulletin...
...began as an afternoon paper but actually came out late in the morning with yesterday's news; the new Star will soon frankly be a morning newspaper. Although the city badly needs a good afternoon paper, the Star chooses to buck the tougher competition of the monolithic Daily News and Hearst's Mirror...
Final Decree. The Star's first edition would show a new face and format, new talent and backers. Page One, unlike other New York tabs, would change from a poster to a news page. Inside, by Joe Barnes's decree, news and comment would be finally divorced. On the editorial page, run by George Wells, lately of Newsweek, the signed editorials were out; from now on the paper would speak for itself...