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Somebody waited their entire career to write that headline.
by DiabloD3 5y ago
Somebody waited their entire career to write that headline.
- dvh 5y ago"Foot Heads Arms Body" On 22 June 1978, The Guardian ran an article with the headline "Foot hits back on Nazi comparison". Reader David C. Allan of Edinburgh responded with a letter to the editor, which the paper ran on 27 June. Decrying the headline's apparent pun, Allen suggested that, if Foot were in future to be appointed Secretary of State for Defence, The Guardian might cover it under the headline "Foot Heads Arms Body". The belief later gained currency that The Times actually had run the headline. Some decades later, Martyn Cornell recalled the story as true, saying he had written the headline himself as a Times subeditor around 1986. The headline does not, however, appear in The Times Digital Archive, which includes every day's newspaper from 1785 into the 21st century.
- pcl 5y agoThat reminds me of the classic "Headless Body in Topless Bar" headline: https://nypost.com/2015/06/09/new-york-post-editor-and-film-critic-vincent-musetto-dies-at-74/ https://nypost.com/2015/06/09/new-york-post-editor-and-film-...