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...Boston papers--for one edition. Brown had finally met up with the police reporters and given them substantially the same story. But by noon Thursday there was a new angle. The Traveler's Home Edition ran a six-column streamer saying QUIZ 2 AT HARVARD IN DAHLIA CASE; The Globe played the story smaller, but in greater detail. It said...
...distributed.) Collier's, with a closing five weeks in advance of publication, could not do anything about its issue. To its 3,161,048 readers last week went an issue bearing a full-color cover picture of MacArthur smiling happily at Vice Admiral A. D. Struble over the streamer, "MacArthur's Greatest Battle," i.e., Inchon...
While Jack's late brother, Charles L. Blanton, whip-tongued editor of a Scott County paper, was known as the "polecat editor," Jack always preferred a gentler and humbler approach. The most celebrated demonstration of its effectiveness was the 1942 Monroe County drought. In a 60-pt. streamer on Page One, Editor Blanton proclaimed: LORD, WE CONFESS OUR SINS, WE ASK FOR FORGIVENESS, WE PRAY FOR RAIN. An hour after the paper hit Main Street, the rains came. Recalls Blanton: "Trouble was, it rained so much the farmers couldn't harvest the crops. The farmers still come...
Despite the critics' praises, few gallery-goers were likely to see beyond the main quality of Rose's Crucifixion: its ghastliness. Rose had clothed the figure of Christ in writhing ribbons of green flesh outlined with black and lavender, dripping streamer-like gouts of purplish blood. The painting swarmed dizzyingly with abstruse symbols, many of them phallic. Christ's brow, overhanging the foreground, was an electric lamp...
Last week the unsensational Oklahoman (circ. 125,950) ran it under an eight-column streamer: IF YOU HAD A YEAR...