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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Able Newspaperman McCullagh decided to get tough first with Toronto's Liberal Star (circ. 369,276), longtime rival of the Telegram, and Canada's biggest newspaper. The Star charged that the Telegram had lost its independence and that McCullagh was a front man "for outside influence and ownership." McCullagh snapped that the Telegram deal was his own. "That fellow Hindmarsh [Harry Comfort Hindmarsh, Star president]," he roared, ". . . is so ugly that if he ever bit himself he'd get hydrophobia...
Last week in Moscow, Paleontologist I. A. Efremov announced that he had found "millions" of dinosaur skeletons in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia. It might well prove to be the biggest dinosaur graveyard in the world. The skeletons lie from 49 to 131 feet deep, apparently in the bed of an ancient river...
...biggest financial attraction for Benny is a whopping tax reduction: incorporated as a business enterprise, he is subject only to a capital gains tax (25%) on the deal, instead of a much higher (up to 77%) personal income tax. CBS confidently hopes to capture the rest of NBC's Sunday evening lineup: the Phil Harris-Alice Faye show (because Harris is also a feature of Benny's show) and Edgar Bergen (to keep the successful bloc intact...
Last week, tired of turning down unsuitable suitors, he took steps to keep "The Old Lady," as Arkansans call the state's biggest and most respected daily, in the family. For around $750,000, he bought the Gazette stock (25%) that was not already held by Heiskells. He also named ex-Army Major Hugh B. Patterson Jr., his capable, 33-year-old son-in-law, as his paper's publisher. (Son Carrick Heiskell, an Army pilot, was killed flying the Hump in World...
Gros himself designed some of the biggest of his 250 balloons, got Goodyear to make many of them to specification (none higher than 16½ ft.). He has a regular staff of 20 to keep them repaired and innate them for parades, hires 200 extras in every town to dress as clowns and man the floats...