Word: bannerize
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...that made the proud Provincetown folk bitter. From Oklahoma came 40 genuine Indians led by former New York Yankee Pitcher Allie Reynolds (also in the group: part-time Indian Will Rogers Jr.); the local Mayflower Transit Co. pulled its vans into camera range; an airplane zoomed overhead trailing a banner exhorting the Pilgrims to dine at "The Leaning Tower of Pizza...
Last week they were told for fair. "Gambling, widespread and important, is back at the old stands in Jefferson Parish!" cried the front page of the New Orleans States. "It is spreading like an epidemic." Beneath the banner headlines ran the byline of the stranger at the bar: Edwin Strickland, 39, the balding bachelor reporter of the Birmingham News, who has made a career of sniffing out crime and corruption, in 1954 played a major role in exposing the blend of sex, graft and murder in Phenix City, Ala. (TIME, June...
...picture of clubman and country squire, complimented himself that he neither looked nor dressed like an artist. It was this pompous Elgar who turned out the first Pomp and Circumstance march (its trio is also known as "Land of Hope and Glory"), along with The Crown of India, The Banner of St. George, Imperial March -all marked by bombast, contrived orchestral climaxes, syrupy sentiment. "I want to write something as typically and thoroughly English as roast beef and beer," Elgar said, and he succeeded...
Into the shot and shell over the defense budget sailed Defense Secretary Charles Erwin Wilson, whose battle banner many an eye has danced to see. To port lay the lusty economizers of the House Appropriations Committee, who had just brought down 7% of Charlie's defense budget with one savage $2.5 billion cut. To starboard, scudding elusively above and below the horizon, lay sleeker seamen such as Scientist Vannevar Bush, an old Pentagon hand, and Distinguished Citizen Nelson A. Rockefeller; they thought that Wilson ought to save money and step up efficiency by making some sort of single service...
...Under a banner headline, "America Conquers," the Herald shouted, "The meeting will probably go down in athletic annals as the best ever seen on this side of the water...