Archive for February 17th, 2015

MAGAZINE PREMIERED ON THIS DAY IN 1933

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Cover of the first issue of News-Week magazine with seven photographs
from the week’s news.


News-Week
was launched by Thomas J.C. Martyn, a former foreign-news editor
for Time. He obtained financial backing from a group of U.S. stockholders which 
included Ward Cheney, of the Cheney silk family.

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Journalist Thomas John Cardell Martyn

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NEWSMAKERS ON THIS DAY

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Brian Thomas

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Michael Jeffrey Jordan is 52 years old today.

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