Word: broking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PRUITTS OF SOUTHAMPTON (ABC, 9-9:30 p.m.). Phyllis Diller as the widowed head of the poor but proud Pruitts of Long Island. The first episode, "Phyllis Goes for Broke," chronicles Uncle Ned's (Reginald Gardiner) efforts to marry Phyllis off to moneyed stuffiness, General Cannon (John McGiver). Gypsy Rose Lee plays a noisy neighbor...
...dull." And circulation rose a bit. Then the 1962-63 printers' strike smashed the effort. Another economy drive had already got Denson (he missed too many deadlines), and after the strike, the Trib began vainly trying to imitate his style without his spark. When the 1964 Harlem riots broke on a Saturday night, the Trib refused to break its solidly locked Sunday front page, covered the story inside. And all along the paper kept losing money...
...since its birth in 1885, has always been pretty much a family affair. Among other things, three successive presidents have been relatives of Founder Louis Latzer, who died in 1924. Last week Pet broke the familial format, named as its president Gordon Ellis, 51, a onetime grocery clerk who, as vice president in charge of operations, helped raise this year's sales to $423,271,000. Still, Ellis will have three Latzer relatives on his top-level corporate team...
...condemned men won nine stays of execution, once beat their date with the electric chair by only three hours. On grounds ranging from coerced confessions to perjured testimony, they appealed to Louisiana's top state court twice, to the U.S. Supreme Court four times. In 1964, the pair broke Caryl Chessman's eleven-years eleven-months Death Row record, and kept appealing in a process that, one judge complained, "seems to have...
...mindlessly advises visitors to "take a blue crayon and color the sky." Then she lays a few cards on the table: she works in a feed store, owns her house outright, has 200,000 lire in the bank. Adolfo follows suit: he works in a bookstore and is dead broke...