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...proposed deal is essentially an acquisition: Knight will swap stock worth some $158 million for 77,100 Ridder shares and dominate the enlarged chain's board of directors. Knight has been expanding steadily since the late Charles L. Knight, a former editor of the Woman's Home Companion, bought the Akron Beacon Journal in 1906. Under Knight's sons, John S., 79, and James L., 64, the chain has grown to 16 metropolitan dailies, including the Miami Herald, the Detroit Free Press and the Philadelphia Inquirer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Linking Chains | 7/22/1974 | See Source »

Occasionally Unnatural Acts degenerates into an excess of tiresome screaming but more often it manages to make pointed comments about politics and society without pressing for them. At its best it shares those qualities of artful brevity and carefully balanced, controlled energy that makes its companion piece so effective...

Author: By Susan Cooke, | Title: Kenyon's Anarchic Clown Show | 7/12/1974 | See Source »

...court did indeed see hard-core porn in a companion case. As if to emphasize that they had not really gone soft on obscenity, the Justices upheld the conviction of William Hamling and five other defendants from the Los Angeles area for mailing some 55,000 copies of an advertisement for The Illustrated Presidential Report of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography. The obscene ad included pictures "portraying heterosexual and homosexual intercourse, sodomy and a variety of deviate sexual acts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Clearing the Calendar | 7/8/1974 | See Source »

Dadd's mental collapse had taken place in Egypt (hence, presumably, his "possession" by Osiris), where in 1842 he had gone as traveling artist and companion to a doughty Victorian tourist named Sir Thomas Phillips. The exotic vistas dumbfounded Dadd. "The excitement of these scenes," he wrote to a painter friend in England, "has been enough to turn the brain . . . and often I have lain down at night with my imagination so full of wild vagaries that I have really and truly doubted my own sanity . . . for I've got opened my mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: From the Dark Garden of the Mind | 7/8/1974 | See Source »

...arrested by a state police posse, he told Beige that he had raped and killed a woman in an abandoned mine shaft. Some three weeks later, Beige found the mine-and the body of Susan Petz, 21. She had been missing since July, although the body of her camping companion, Daniel Porter, 23, had been found in the area. Then, late last September, another Garrow confession led the lawyers to the body of another victim: Alicia Hauck, 16, a high school student who had also been missing since July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: A Question of Confidence | 7/1/1974 | See Source »

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