Word: asterisks
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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Maybe an old time cover-to-cover reader will tell a comparatively recent newsstand convert what to do on meeting an asterisk...
...common practice to read all of the footnotes first? Or do you find it better to read the article through to the end and then to pick up the footnote the asterisk or dagger refers...
TIME footnotes are appended, whenever possible, to ends of paragraphs, or at least ends of sentences, so that they can be read at natural breaks or pauses in the story, like asides in a play. The recommended procedure is to read each footnote as its asterisk, dagger or double asterisk appears. Any able reading eye should then be able to find its way back to the point of digression in the main text. Less nimble eyes can be aided by staking out the point of digression with forefinger or pencil. Readers too engrossed by the main discourse to break...