(From the February 23, 1964 issue of The Sunday Oregonian)

PARADE is an nationwide Sunday newspaper magazine that is distributed in more than
530 newspapers in the U.S. It was founded in 1941 by Field Enterprises. PARADE
is the most widely read magazine in the country with a circulation of 32.2 million
and a readership of more than 74million people every week.The first issue of
PARADE, subtitled “The Weekly picture Newspaper”, used photos left over from
PM, an experimental New York newspaper. The magazine was soon picked up
by The Washington Post, now the oldest continuous subscriber, and added to
its Sunday package. By the end of 1942, PARADE was carried by 16 newspapers.

October 23, 1983

Floyd Bennett (left) pioneer aviator piloted the explorer Richard E. Byrd (right) on the first successful flight over the North Pole on May 9, 1926. For this feat both Bennett and Byrd received the U.S. Congressional Medal of Honor. Floyd Bennett Airport in Brooklyn, N.Y., was named for him in 1931.

The Fokker tri-motor airplane used by Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett

Richard Byrd (at left) and machinist Floyd Bennett (at right), receiving the
Medal of Honor from president Calvin Coolidge (center).

The first newspaper cartoon in America was political in nature (above) and was
drawn and originally published by Benjamin Franklin in The Pennsylvania Gazette. It
appeared as part of an editorial by Franklin commenting on ‘the present disunited
state of the British Colonies. The woodcut drawing entitled ‘Join or Die’ pictures a
divided snake in eight pieces representing as many colonial governments.The
drawing was based on the popular superstition that a snake that had been cut in
two would come to life if the pieces were joined before sunset. The drawing was
soon reproduced in other newspapers.  

Benjamin Franklin

A page from The Pennsylvania Gazette

Famous commentary by Herbert Morrison (below) of WLS Chicago

Herbert Morrison

The first known published crossword puzzle (above) was created by  journalist
Arthur Wynne (below) from Liverpool. The word game appeared in the Sunday
addition of  the New York World newspaper on December 21, 1913. Despite their enormous popularity, crosswords only appeared in the New York World. It wasn’t
until 1924 that a couple of recent graduates of the Columbia School of Journalism,
by the names of Dick Simon and Lincoln Schuster, set up their own publishing
company. Looking for something to publish, they settled on a book with puzzles
that had appeared in the New York World newspaper. The crossword book was
a huge hit and began a craze for the word puzzles worldwide.

Arthur Wynne

Left to right: Dick Simon and Lincoln Schuster with their first Crossword
Puzzle book