The Times proved less efficient than advertised). Walter bought the logography's patent and with it opened a printing house to produce a daily advertising sheet. The first publication of the newspaper "The Daily Universal Register in Great Britain" was 1 January 1785. Unhappy because the word "Universal" was frequently omitted from the name, Walter changed the title after 940 editions on 1 January 1788 to "The Times". In 1803, Walter handed ownership and editorship to his son of the same name. In spite of Walter Sr's sixteen-month stay in Newgate Prison for libel printed in "The Times", his pioneering efforts to obtain
The Last Times The Last Times The Last Times was a tabloid underground newspaper published in San Francisco in 1967 by beatnik poet and printer Charles Plymell. It lasted only two issues, but included work by William Burroughs, Claude Pelieu, Allen Ginsberg, and Charles Bukowski. "The Last Times" featured William Burroughs' text "Day the Records Went Up" (a version of which later appeared in "Evergreen Review", November 1968), Claude Pelieu's "Do It Yourself & Dig It", Allen Ginsberg's poem "Television Was A Baby Crawling Toward that Deathchamber" (also published in Ginsberg's book "T.V. Baby Poems" , London: Cape Goliart Press, 1967), and a