Word: brahmin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Boston Herald American was dying, it seemed, even before it was born. Founded in June 1972 as the merger of a played-out Hearst tabloid, the Record American, with a once elegant Brahmin broadsheet that had gone broke, the Herald Traveler, the fledgling paper lost more than $35 million in its first decade. Its circulation, 238,000 as of last week, was less than half that of the rival Boston Globe (circ. 510,000), which runs away with four times the advertising linage. Thus almost no one in Boston was surprised when the Hearst Corp. announced that the Herald American...
There must be an attraction of opposites: Ernie Souchak (John Belushi), a pudgy, wily, chain-smoking columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, and Nell Porter (Blair Brown), a Boston Brahmin working alone in her Rocky Mountain aerie to save the American bald eagle. They must "meet cute": assigned to write a story on the Bird Woman of Wyoming, Souchak climbs the mountain at risk of life and lung, falls asleep in Nell's cabin and is poked awake by her. They must reverse roles: he cooks goulash while she overpowers a pair of hunters. They must adapt their skills...
...president of his own management firm, handling more than $8 billion in mutual funds. Putnam is a Boston Brahmin who inherited his father's flourishing business. Today Putnam, devotes considerable time and energy to philanthropic activities--16 to 20 hours a week alone on the essentially non-paying post of treasurer...
DIED. Mary Parkman Peabody, 89, doughty Boston Brahmin civil rights activist who was arrested in 1964 at age 72 for leading a demonstration in St. Augustine, Fla., while her son Endicott Peabody was Governor of Massachusetts; of heart failure; in Cambridge, Mass...
Born to a Boston Brahmin family, Smith learned to love California while wintering there as a boy. After graduating from U.C.L.A. and Harvard Law School ('42) and a stint in the Navy, he decided to practice law in California. "I wasn't going to be dictated to by my ancestors," he says. "I came to Los Angeles principally because that was the place where things were going to happen." He specialized in handling labor matters for corporate clients. Though a forceful negotiator, he won the respect of his adversaries. Says William Robertson, executive secretary of the Los Angeles...