Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although Love was having a difficult time, he never lost the respect of his oarsmen. "We always felt we were rowing for Harvey more than for Harvard," said a graduate. "He was a little man--a cox--among giants," he continued, "but he could sympathize with the rowers and get the best out of us. He was truly one of the finest men I've known...
...Harvard adviser or ambassador has chosen to leave the Kennedy Administration. National Security aide McGeorge Bundy, Foreign Aid director David W. Bell, and Solicitor General Archibald Cox all resigned from the University immediately after their appointments were announced...
...lower house in a contest for a state senate seat. In South Carolina, Newspaperman William D. Workman Jr., who joined the Republican Party only a year ago, gathered 43% of the votes for U.S. Senator in a race against Incumbent Olin Johnston. In the Texas gubernatorial contest, Republican Jack Cox lost to Democrat John B. Connally, former Navy Secretary in the Kennedy Administration, but came closer to winning than any G.O.P. candidate for Governor of Texas had done since Reconstruction...
When Baggs took over as editor in 1957, the News was a rusty link in the six-paper chain founded by James M. Cox, onetime Ohio Governor and 1920 Democratic candidate for President. Compared to the powerful Herald, the News looked-and was-mortally ill. To save it, Publisher James M. Cox Jr., son of the chain's founder, reached deep into the paper's ranks, came up with exactly the right...
...former B-24 pilot who joined the News in 1946. and worked up from reporter to political columnist. Baggs came on strong. He cleared the staff of deadwood, from managing editor on down, ultimately firing 15% of his staff. Of Cox, he demanded and got complete editorial command. He changed the paper's masthead slogan from "Today's News Today"* to "Best Newspaper Under the Sun." To staffers he said: "We're going to try to smuggle a little scholarly journalism into the paper too." Unequipped to compete with the Herald's news-gathering army...