Word: cohn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whipsaw. The trouble began when Weinberg set his sights on the Fifth Avenue Coach Line, whose routes lace Manhattan and suburban Westchester County. With the shrewd counsel of Lawyer Roy M. Cohn, 35, the boy Torquemada of the McCarthy era, Weinberg and friends bought up 23% of Fifth Avenue's stock for $3,500,000, put Weinberg in the driver's seat. Straightway, he began to complain that the company was barreling toward bankruptcy, demanded a fare boost from 15? to 20? to save it. Mayor Wagner, who had promised to hold fares down, would tolerate none...
...perhaps know, McCarthy and his assistants, Cohn and Schine, are generally considered to have considerably damaged our U.S. information program. In Vienna, they succeeded in removing books and records from our Amerika-Haus. In Munich they had several senior people removed from the Consulate General and the Amerika-Haus. Consequently, although I feel it perfectly fair to criticize USIA for weak sports, presumed or actual, I do not think you are justified in using McCarthy's favorite device, guilt by association...
With his great bull whip, so goes the legend, Columbia Pictures' late President Harry ("The White Fang") Cohn liked to snap out the lenses of his flunkies' sunglasses. That sort of management more or less characterized the feudal days when the major studio bosses-Goldwyn, Mayer, the Warners, Cohn-were almost as well known as their stars. Now that Hollywood is often duller than its pictures, the mighty name symbolizing the new Age of the Independent Producer is roughly as well known as the incumbent ruler of Bhutan...
...Cohn: Son of Drum Suite (RCA Victor). A sequel to the unpredictably popular Drum Suite album of several years ago. Composer-Saxophonist Cohn coaxes six drummers (on snares, cymbals, tom-toms) into a sort of illustrated seminar on the art of drumming-from brush technique to rim shots. Cohn wraps his lessons into a number of his own big-band compositions with such variety and skill that listeners can forgive a little too much tick, thump...
...McClellan Committee: "He engaged in personal vendettas; he made it known that he was out to 'get' named individuals." But charges of nepotism were rare, and almost no one saw fit to bring up Bobby's brief service, in 1953, as an assistant counsel under Roy Cohn on the McCarthy subcommittee...