Word: crossword
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...roles of the newspapers, "once primarily concerned with fact and opinion," and the magazines, which once dealt mainly in fiction and features. "The magazines gradually became the instruments of original reporting, crusading, investigative reporting. The newspapers . . . gradually took on the former coloration of the magazines, with their fiction, features, crossword puzzles, panels, columnists, comics and other entertainments . . . Newspapers, many of them built to greatness on the tradition of fearless reporting, are only going through the motions of covering beats or waiting for the news releases to be thrown through the transom . . . It's much easier to hire wire services...
...France-Soir jumped from 14 to 20 pages, splashed pictures on its front page, and plugged a contest offering 50 million francs ($142,857) for the best characterization of "the ideal Frenchman." Little Paris-Presse (circ. 160,000) boosted itself from 14 to 16 pages and put in a crossword-puzzle contest. Stuffy, neutralist Le Monde, small (circ. 166,000) but influential, fought the new opposition with a front-page editorial: "Big newspapers capable of exercising an influence on public opinion should not be byproducts of industrial enterprises...
...only Negro daily in the North, and the second in the U.S. (after Atlanta's World), the Defender still concentrates heavily on Negro news. But, for the first time, it is running such features as an I.N.S. summary of world news, Columnists Robert Spivack and Bennett Cerf, a crossword puzzle and six comics, e.g., Henry, Donald Duck...
...Ulysses diminishes . . . from comic epic to the curiosity of a learned crossword puzzle and, as such, a major, unrequited European export to the scholar-technicians of the American universities. They find more and more in it, as we find less and less...
...husband on his 65th birthday, gave him a plastic easel equipped with boxes for brushes and paints. Major John Eisenhower's choice was a set of Autobridge, enabling the President to play all four hands in turn. From the President's grandchildren came a book of crossword puzzles, another book called 150 Ways to Play Solitaire, and a phonograph record of a monologue, What It Was, Was Football. In the President's room bloomed red roses and autumn flowers, picked from his mother's garden at Abilene. Kans...