Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...previous years. But now TIME is approaching its 30th birthday. And we'd like to find out who were on the list of original subscribers to TIME -and how many of them still subscribe. If you are - or know of anyone who was - a charter subscriber, will you write and let me know? I would also be interested in those who subscribed to TIME during its first three or four years of publication...
Forthwith the Times got a lesson in 1) the power of advertising and 2) the readiness of Stevenson followers to write for their candidate. Overnight, 2,120 letters and wires flooded into the Times offices. Only 142 urged the paper to stick to Ike; the other 1,978 called for a switch. Next day, just as it would with any other news story, the Times dutifully reported the avalanche of "restrained communications" in response to the ad. It answered the communications by reprinting a three-column editorial that it had run only three days before, reaffirming the Times...
...reporter for Long Island's tabloid Newsday (circ. 175,000), young (25), law-abiding Don Kellerman made a proposal that surprised his wife as much as it did his managing editor. Kellerman wanted to get arrested so that he could write a series on "what happens to a youngster in his first clash with the law." This is an old journalistic stunt, but Kellerman had a new twist. Instead of going to jail with the connivance of police, the usual method used by reporters, Kellerman proposed to say nothing to the police, get himself arrested while seemingly committing...
...than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance He is the foremost celebrant of love among modern poets -"we're wonderful one times one" is a reiterated theme. "I have no sentimentality at all. If you haven't got that you're not afraid to write about love and death," he says. In a time when it is he fashionable to hate one's mother and father, he has written: if there are any heavens my mother will (all by herself) have one . . . and in recent years, at readings he has given, he has included...
...eighty Amherst men in Political Science 27, given only in the fall of election years, field work is the "core of the course." During the campaign period demands on their time are "almost limitless." They send out campaign literature, write speeches, and canvass door-to-door instead of reading about politics in textbooks...