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...paper's future depends upon whether one of the publishers-millionaire backer Richard H. Missner or Ray Riepen, part-owner of Radio Station WBCN-manages to buy the other out. Most of the staff has pledged to resign unless Missner gains full control...
...fondness for fascism. After the war, under the gullible noses of the family's financial advisers, he transfers huge sums of money to Europe. Then, poof! . . . he disappears, to reappear in Zurich as surgically deformed Heinrich Kroeger, intimate of the German high command, the center of an international backer's dozen of tycoons who are underwriting Hitler. U.S. intelligence, with help from his abandoned wife and widowed mother, pursues Scarlatti through the capitals of the world, encountering murder, madness and megalomania among the high and the mighty. The plot is pure kitsch, but does occasionally clutch...
...Before the teach-in, we couldn't have known what support we had for doing other things." Martin Peretz, assistant professor of Social Studies, a teach- in organizer, and a key McCarthy backer in 1968, said in an interview. "Having a teach-in also shows that we are no longer willing to remain silent...
Cokes and Chorus Girls. How did the little-known Perenchio get that kind of money? And how does he plan to turn a profit? Perenchio put up none of the cash pot himself, but instead found a 24-carat backer. Jack Kent Cooke of Los Angeles. Millionaire Sportsman Cooke, now 58, had parlayed a $24-a-week job as manager of a radio station in Canada into an empire of radio stations and cable-TV companies. Today he also owns the Los Angeles Lakers (basketball) and Kings (hockey), and is part owner of the Washington Redskins (football). Cooke made...
...Flat-backer. A prostitute who serves many customers; a volume dealer...