Good Name

 “On a U.S. lecture tour Winston Churchill in Cleveland once paid this compliment to that city’s oldest and richest newspaper: ‘I think,’ said he, ‘that by all odds the Plain Dealer has the best newspaper name of any in the world.’ He referred, of course, to the Plain Dealer’s name literally, not to its rating among world newspapers.”

—TIME magazine, 1942. Link.

 

• Editorial Comment: Well, yes, of course. Let’s not go overboard.

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