Word: sundays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sideshow world of the Sunday supplements, where pterrifying pterodactyls often rub wings with faded Broadway butterflies, Hearst's giant American Weekly has long been king. But its crown is slipping. After 14 years of trying, This Week magazine has finally passed it in ad revenues. In 1948, according to figures out last week, This Week carried $16,695,628 worth of ads to the Weekly's $16,466,061. (At $24,900 for a four-color page, This Week's ad rate topped all U.S. magazines.*) The Weekly still led in circulation with 9,410,561 copies...
...there is a lean journalist and ex-pressagent who figured there was more than one way to give a Sunday supplement a Sunday punch. The Weekly had been weaned (by the late Morrill Goddard) on a formula of blood and sexy scandals. This Week's Editor William I. (for Ichabod) Nichols prescribed a blander fare: so-so fiction, fashions, features, cartoons. For roughage he added articles on such subjects as home-buying, legislators' pay, sex education...
Five Harvard professors and a member of the Liberal Union were elected to the executive board of the Massachusetts chapter of Americans for Democratic Action at the group's convention last Sunday...
Clyde K.M. Kluckhohn, director of the Russian Research Center, returned from Paris Sunday following a meeting of UNESCO's Tensions Project committee...
Graham Taylor and John Hart took seventh and ninth, respectively, at Lebanon, New Hampshire, Sunday in the state cross country and jumping championships. This Sunday the team will enter the annual Gibson Trophy slalom race at North Conway, New Hampshire...