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...2Oth century America, the dominant note on the stage is not courage, excitement or hope. It is not even honest despair, which can be the beginning of fortitude. It is a kind of bored preoccupation with familiar vices, treated with tabloid sensationalism, or written off in psychological clichés, but too rarely measured against sin and salvation, human striving and human failure...
...grounds fitted with tennis courts and a swimming pool, the European edition of 150,000 goes out to armed forces people from Iceland to Morocco. The Darmstadt editorial staff of 94 is supplemented by bureaus and district offices in nine countries. The paper they produce is a 24-page tabloid largely filled with wire service news and the familiar staples of U.S. journalism: comics (in color on Sunday), crossword puzzles and features. The similar Pacific Stars and Stripes, published in Tokyo, distributes its 61,000 press run from Pakistan to the Aleutian Islands...
...system made only seven of 16 basic high-school courses compulsory, and questioning the latitude this left the student, the school board added four more courses to the compulsory list. In Los Angeles, as a public service, the Examiner each week distributes 114,000 copies of a current-events tabloid to 115 high schools. And Portland's Morrison, a tireless crusader for better schools, has helped get teachers' pay boosted, forced the Portland school board and the state board of higher education, which both used to hold closed-door meetings, to open up; in fact, the Portland board...
...unpleasant conviction that Uncle Dickie was behind it all. "A victory for Prince Philip and his uncle!" growled the Daily Herald. "A sad blunder," said Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express. "The decision will not be approved by the British public," said Britain's biggest paper, the tabloid Daily Mirror. From the London Times there was an uncomfortable silence. But for all these reservations about the Queen's decision, the expected birth within the next few days of another royal heir was bound to remind everyone again how basically popular Britain's Queen...
From house to house in Portland moved union teams, exhorting tenants to cancel their subscriptions to Portland's two daily newspapers, the morning Oregonian and the evening Oregon Journal. As a substitute, subscribers had the offer of a new weekly tabloid published by the Portland Interunion Newspaper Committee in a desperate attempt to win a strike that was already three months old. During those three months, the dispute had become a finish fight, eyed closely by printing-craft union men and newspaper publishers all over the U.S. At stake: the capability of newspapers, using modern equipment, to get along...