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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Publisher Gannett, whose name appeared as editor only on the Times-Union masthead, always sent his political pronouncements to his other editors with the notation: "For your information and use, if desired"-and editors were free to ignore them...
...distinct family traits that go beyond sound management or geographical proximity. (Except for Illinois' Danville Commercial-News, New Jersey's Plainfield Courier-News and the Hartford Times, all are published in New York cities and small towns.) Conservative in news judgment as in politics, they have little use for exposes, play down stories of sex and crime. "A newspaper, to suit me," said Gannett, "must be one that I would be willing to have my mother, my own sister or daughter read." Many readers, particularly in the 15 cities where Gannett has a monopoly, complain that the modern...
...While nonscience textbooks must be repeatedly revised to keep up with the changing party line, some science and mathematics textbooks have become so "stabilized" as to be "ossified." The most widely used algebra text, for instance, was published in 1888, has undergone only minor revisions since. Even Soviet experts have publicly protested that "the book fails fully to reflect modern science," yet it is still in use...
...Live TV has that little element of human fallibility," Singer Dinah Shore once said. "If you make a mistake, you can use that old ham bone and capitalize on it." Last week Dinah almost got knocked off-camera by a playful poke in the ribs from Guest Star Jimmy Durante, but Dinah's ham bone was up to it; gasping with laughter, she bounced back to make it seem a small bonus in an hour of unpremeditated fun. Week to week, just such spontaneity fuses with a haunting vocal talent to make blonde (since 1944) Dinah Shore the nicest...
...Winchester, Tenn. (pop. 3,974), she bridled at schoolmates' taunting puns ("Fanny sat on a tack. Fanny rose? Shore!"). Recalls Dinah: "I tell you, it just made me go home nights and chew my pillow." In childhood she suffered from polio, which for six years threatened the full use of her right foot. After some bleak, jobless days in Manhattan, she spent 3½ years indentured to radio's Eddie Cantor, did poorly in several movies (Belle of the Yukon, Up in Arms), and was fired from one of her first radio shows by the late Tobacco Tyrant...