Word: charnay
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...David B. Charnay, president of Four-Star International Inc., of Beverly Hills, a television production company; he became acquainted with Hughes when the billionaire was expanding his television network in the late...
...pretrial testimony in the Maheu libel case, Greenspun was assured by an associate of Maheu that "Mr. Hughes isn't going to let you get caught holding the bag" by selling Air West stock at a low price. Around Dec. 31, 1968, the Government charges, Crockett, Greenspun and Charnay unloaded 46,000 snares of Air West stock, or slightly more than 1% of all the shares outstanding. The stock's price skidded from a high of 20 in mid-December to 15% on Dec. 31. Further, the Government charges, the Hughes group harassed recalcitrant board members by filing...
...many of Louis Wolfson's battles and deals, his associate was David B. Charnay, longtime New York Daily News reporter, now chairman and part owner of a Manhattan public relations firm. Last November Wolfson sold a trailer company controlled by one of his interests to Detroit's Trans Continental Industries, of which Charnay is chairman, and it became Trans Continental's chief asset. Last week the Securities and Exchange Commission ordered a ten-day suspension of trading in Trans Continental stock on the American and Detroit stock exchanges. Reason: "To prevent fraudulent and manipulative practices...
Educated Ear. Tabloid journalism would never get off the ground without such quotes, and such ears for them as smooth, chain-smoking David Buckley Charnay's. Newsman Charnay, 34, is a quiet fellow whom people like to confide in. He went to Public School 184, Walter Winchell's alma mater, and matriculated, like Winchell, on Broadway...
Early in his tabloid career (at Hearst's Mirror), Charnay once bawled out wizened Editor Emile Gauvreau for printing off-the-record information that Charnay had promised not to use. The boss rang for a guard and Charnay, still protesting, was hauled away. But in losing his job, he won a reputation on the main stem as a man who could keep a secret. Charnay once posed as a murderer's attorney to get an interview in a cell at the Tombs, hid in a French actress' stateroom closet to get an exclusive story on her "life...