Word: weekend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newsprint last winter, the London Sunday Pictorial jumped to sign up Al Capp's Li'l Abner. Editor Harry Guy Bartholomew, whose knowing tabloid touch had built the London Daily Mirror (circ. 4,400,000) into the world's biggest daily, thought that his even bigger weekend Pictorial audience (4,800,000) would eat up Capp's super-edible Shmoos as hungrily as U.S. readers had done...
Pfister will plow back into equipment. By this weekend, he will have helped plant 4,800 acres with his special inbred strains...
...these human misfits are signs of "the land I love deteriorating, the world I adore growing ever more miserable." He feels "lonelier than God," exhausted by his "endless efforts to put a simple idea in some form that would perfuse skulls hardened against it." It is a rough weekend for a man who thinks he is dying: Yvonne, fired by her instincts, hammers incessantly on his bedroom door; Marcia leaves Paul, and he poises himself on the terrace ledge and threatens a 16-story jump into Madison Avenue...
...Over the weekend Edelman told reporters that he would be glad to appear. "I certainly have nothing to hide--and nothing to be ashamed off," he said. "A bit of youthful curiosity has made a mountain out of a molehill...
...Last weekend, however, Harvard was back in its accustomed runner-up spot as Putnam and Scullay skippered the Crimson into second place behind the Elis in the Ivy Championships at Brown's Edgewood Yacht Club...