Word: page
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...longdistance telephone from the Minneapolis Star: could A.P. take color pictures of General George C. Marshall's funeral, airship the developed film from Washington to Minneapolis that same night? The A.P. could and did. Next morning at 10:20, right on schedule, five big Star presses rolled. On Page One: a five-column, four-color picture showing the flag-draped casket and its uniformed pallbearers, the pearl-grey columns of Washington Cathedral, the green trees and the blue...
Star readers are used to such fast and timely color with their news. The paper prints news or news-related color pictures five times a week, recently spread a four-color picture of an American Legion parade across Page One just 5 hours and 19 minutes after the photograph was taken-and while the parade was still going...
...page seven of the University of Pennsylvania's freshman handbook, a high-minded quote from Ben Franklin, the founder of the University, appears: "The instruction of youth is one of those employments which to the public are most useful; it ought therefore to be esteemed among the most honorable. Its successful exercise does not, however, always meet with the reward it merits, except in the satisfaction of having contributed to the forming of virtuous and able men for the service of their country...
Debate on the 16-page report of the NSA committee was restrained and brief, and somewhat anticlimatic after the two-hour diatribe on NDEA. Most Council members seemed to feel that the issue should be dispatched with as much speed as possible...
...even as these brave words were appearing in print, King and Cudlipp were taking stock-and making changes designed to revive the Mirror's appeal to youth. Out last week went the Page One slogan that the Mirror had used for 14 years: "Forward with the People." Out too went the Mirror's concession to middle-aged readers: a serious political column by Labor M.P. Richard Grossman, who, with help from the Mirror's Cudlipp, had also written the scathing but ineffective campaign broadside called "The Tory Swindle." And finally, out went a British newspaper institution...