Word: backer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news was broken by Marshall Field III, wealthy backer of Manhattan's tabloid PM. He said that he and "a group of friends" had definitely decided to go ahead with their plan. The one friend whom Field named*; was Silliman Evans, publisher of the Nashville Tennessean-an experienced publisher who may be capable of tangling successfully with Colonel Robert McCormick of the Tribune...
Marshal Field, backer of the New York tabloid PM, put up the money. The Center's board of directors includes two social psychologists, Princeton's Professor Hadley Cantril and Harvard's Professor Gordon W. Allport, and University of Denver's Chancellor Caleb F. Gates Jr., onetime star Princeton tackle and track man. For active operators the academicians will lean on two experienced pollsters, British-born Harry H. Field (no kin to Marshall Field), who worked six years for George Gallup and organized the British Institute of Public Opinion, and F. Douglas Williams, who worked for Elmo...
Lions of London's midsummer social season this year have not been belted earls but simple U.S. journalists. Publisher George Backer of the New York Post, Editor Herbert Agar of the Louisville Courier-Journal, Radioracle Raymond Gram Swing have dined, winedir" by the London Daily Herald's veteran Columnist Hannen Swaffer, Miss Thompson had to install three stenographers and two male social secretaries in her suite at the Savoy to answer mail and arrange engagements. So busy was she that Lady Reading, relict of the late great jurist, was unable to make a date to see her. Later Lady Reading...
...backer of the enterprise. I lost no money in it, directly or indirectly. I do not even know Mr. Proser...
...Variety, Editor Ralph Ingersoll last week explained in an interview how his backer, Marshall Field III, feels about the $22,000 weekly losses of his 5? New York tabloid, PM. Said he of Sportsman Field who has so far sunk around $2,000,000 into PM: "Mr. Field compares PM in some ways with the Philharmonic Orchestra. No one thinks of disbanding the Philharmonic merely because it doesn't now support itself nor never...