Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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THREE years ago TIME published a cover story on New York City's old and colorful political machine, Tammany Hall, in which Tammany Boss Carmine De Sapio appeared as one of the smartest political pros in the city's history. TIME's evaluation of De Sapio in that story (TIME, Aug. 22, 1955) got considerable documentation last week at the New York State Democratic convention in Buffalo, where De Sapio clearly came out on top as the new strongman of his party-not merely in New York City, but in New York State. Even more significantly...
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Such charges miss the mark by miles, entailing basic mistakes about Milton Eisenhower as a man and about his relationship with Ike. Shy, extremely sensitive to criticism, Milton is no man to wear his private character on his public sleeve. The man behind the maroon cover of Who's Who is no heavy-footed bureaucrat ; he plays his part in the Government with the same soft touch that he uses on the pedals of the Hammond organ in his Johns Hopkins residence-in stocking feet. Far from being a doctrinaire ax grinder, he bends over backward to present objective...
Blank Checks. Founded in 1859, Spotting Life began as a weak weekly imitation of one of the world's most colorful journals: Bell's Life in London. Zesty Founder John Bell began covering bare-knuckle prizefights in 1822, expanded his sheet to cover London low life from society scandals to East End bloodlettings. In 1886 Sporting Life bought Bell's copyright and was in turn bought in 1920 by Odhams Press Ltd., publisher of the Laborite Daily Herald (circ. 1,640,707) Sunday People...
...Rays for the Bonk Book. What keeps many clubs going is the yearly assessment to cover the losses. Others, like Chicago's Tarn O'Shanter, which has opened its clubhouse to 320 weddings so far this year, scout around for parties, conventions and tournaments, anything to make a dollar. Even some of the oldest clubs X-ray a prospective member's bank account first, his social position second. Says a member of the very exclusive Denver Country Club: "It is true that some of our nice members are the biggest stinkers in town. But heavens...