Wednesday, May 08, 2019

 

Obscurity of the Day: They Made The Headlines



Here's an apparently very long-lived feature about which I know very little. They Made The Headlines ran in the Worcester Telegram as early as 1947 (based on the top sample), and as late as 1965 (based on the only mention of the feature I could find online, here). The 1947 sample is signed "Phillips", while later ones are bylined as "The Phillips". Based on the few samples I've got, the feature appeared once a week in the Sunday magazine section of the paper.

Any additional information you have on the extent of the run would be much appreciated. I think newspaperarchive.com may have some Worcester Telegrams archived, but having been burned by that company I no longer have an account there. Could someone with an account check on this feature there? Monday Alex Jay will weigh in with an ID for "The Phillips".

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# posted by Allan Holtz @ 8:00 AM
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NewspaperArchive.com seems to have a very limited amount of Worcester Telegram archives: https://newspaperarchive.com/us/massachusetts/worcester/worcester-telegram/

I don't see that anyone has the rest of the archives online.
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 5/10/2019 4:03 PM
 
Hi anon --
Thanks for checking. Looks like all they have is three weeks worth or so? Would you be able to check the two Sundays to see if "They Made The Headlines" appeared in both? I've heard that it might have been a bimonthly feature, not weekly.

Thanks, Allan
# posted by Blogger Allan Holtz : 5/11/2019 8:57 AM
 
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