Word: written
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...concluded with "Prelude to an Evening" and "Painted Head," and at the audience's request, he read a poem he had first written for a Harvard Phi Beta Kappa convocation...
...after the war, sticking to its conservative coverage and soberly written stories, the Times-Star began to lose ground to the Post, which combined flaring headlines and flamboyant crime stories with solid crusades for clean city government. In 1951 the Post passed the Times-Star in circulation (153,230 v. 150,489). Struggling for survival, the Times-Star twice tried to buy the third and largest paper in town, the morning Enquirer ("Solid Cincinnati Reads the Cincinnati Enquirer"), which has a morning and Sunday monopoly. But in 1956 Scripps-Howard bought control of the Enquirer for $4,059,000 (TIME...
Long-Distance Shout. About the only problem was the capricious censorship of Army General Fuad Shehab, who generally cut any mention of himself from written dispatches. Beirut papers appeared with great blank spaces and offending dispatches were scissored out of foreign newspapers. When U.S. Ambassador Robert McClintock pointedly observed that it would be nice to read an uncensored copy of the New York Times, Lebanon's President Chamoun politely offered to let McClintock have his copy when he had finished with...
...most attractive promotion bait offered this summer is a $1,000 life insurance policy, written by Lloyd's of London to cover "the death by fright of any member of the audience." The movie: Macabre, a pallor game played by a mad M.D. When Macabre's Producer William Castle first tried to insure every human being on earth, Lloyd's was chilly. Lloyd's dickered with Castle over an estimate of the number of deaths that would occur, finally settled for an actuarially comfortable eight, made the premium $15,000. No bereaved heir has yet made...
SAIL Ho! (288 pp.)-Sir James Bisset, written in collaboration with P. R. Stephensen-Criterion...