"He instinctively can find the shining greatness of our American culture and does a good job of highlighting it (although he also does have those rare lapses when he writes about hockey, but that is something caused by impurities in the Eastern waters or something)." Erik Keilholtz
Under the patronage of St. Tammany
Mark C. N. Sullivan is an editor at a Massachusetts university. He is married and the father of three children. Email
The Carpet-Bag, Boston, Mass., Jan. 3, 1852, from the Newspaper Nameplate Hall of Fame (pp 1 and 2)
Given my taste for the allegorical, I admire the Dingbat, the vestigial drawing from the nameplate of the old New York Herald Tribune that still appears atop the IHT. If I ever have my own paper, it's going to have a dingbat. (In more ways than one. – Ed.)
* In search of an "attractive" look, Columbia has lopped the cross off its symbolic crown.
* The Devil's Playground chronicles the rise and fall and rise of Times Square.
* The people New York café society chronicler Lucius Beebe covered lived ‘in a white tie till six of a morning before brushing the teeth in a light Moselle and retiring to bed.’
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For those who appreciate a well-turned cartouche: Assorted ships, fishes and dragons from the antique map collection at Berkeley.
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A 1901 cartoon by R. F. Outcault of Pore Lil Mose at Central Park is among the splendid items of ephemera at the-forum On-Line Antiques Mall.
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Read today's front pages, 313 of them, from 40 countries.
As the one-year anniversary approaches of the start of the Iraq War, see a gallery of how the news was played on front pages here and abroad.
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