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Died. Raymond C. Hoiles, 91, president of the Freedom Newspapers chain with 20 dailies (combined circ.: over 500,000) in Florida. Ohio, Nebraska, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado and California; in Santa Ana, Calif. So conservative that he refused to endorse Dwight Eisenhower or Robert A. Taft, Hoiles inveighed against anything even remotely socialistic, including tax-supported compulsory public education...
...Edward H. Harte, 47, is a rich, urbane Texan who got "my big awakening" majoring in philosophy at Dartmouth. Today he is co-owner of the $27 million Harte-Hanks newspaper chain, publisher of the Corpus Christi Caller-Times (circ. 107,000) and the most liberal press tycoon in Texas. A key cause of that superlative is his son Chris, 22, a political science major at Stanford, who has taught Harte to "admire the gutsiness of this generation...
...object of all this enmity is an attractive, green-eyed woman named Sylvie Keshet, the most influential and widely read columnist in Israel. Her twice weekly column in Tel Aviv's daily Ha'aretz (circ. 50,000) is called "An Arrow from Sylvie's Bow," the title being a play on her last name, which is Hebrew for bow. More often than not, Sylvie's arrows are dipped in venom. Her columns have twice prevented prominent politicians from being appointed to the Cabinet. Now, she says with a twinkle in her eye, most of Israel...
...months, but the group eventually sold the idea to such investors as First National City, Chase, and Morgan Guaranty banks. They also intrigued LIFE Photographer-Writer Gordon Parks into taking command as editorial director. His professional hand and eye are evident in the monthly's first issue (circ. 150,000), out this week in 145 cities at 60? a copy. Its tone is best described as Vogue-cum-Ramparts-a somewhat uneasy combination...
...pack a .25 Colt automatic in his billowing pants and sometimes mount a special night watch with a Winchester .30-.30. But he still prefers to do battle with the same weapon that provoked the harassment-the weekly Tennessee newspaper he took over in 1967, the Monroe County Democrat (circ...