Word: coxing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Outraged, the Rose sisters asked Manhattan's Surrogate Court either to dismiss the executors or order them to bury the decedent. Surrogate Joseph A. Cox denied both motions, ruling that "it cannot be said that a fiduciary availing himself of a legal remedy is guilty of improper conduct." Added Cox: Burying the dead is the privilege of the next of kin, while it is "the obligation of the executors to pay the reasonable funeral expenses...
...steadily outstripped the afternoon News, Miami's only other daily. While Herald circulation rose to 381,000, the News slipped to 119,000. But Herald Publisher John S. Knight, president of the Knight chain, did not want to buy the liberal-leaning News; and News Publisher James M. Cox Jr., whose six-paper chain includes the Atlanta Constitution, was loath to fold his Miami outlet...
...only separate operation will be the two papers' editorial staffs. At first glance, the News may seem to be merely a Herald subsidiary. Not quite. While receiving a management fee as the News's business "agent," the Herald will turn over all News revenues to Cox, who retains ownership. Editorially, the News remains a wholly independent paper...
...expects that the savings will be enough to put it in the black. The Herald will get a clear field on Sundays, since the Sunday News has been folded. If the Miami merger succeeds, the big gainer will be the city. The alternative is a one-paper town, which Cox and Knight are trying to avoid. Each publisher feels that Miamians should hear more than one editorial opinion...
While an undergraduate at M.I.T., he rowed in the varsity heavyweight boat for three years, at positions three, four, and five. In 1963 he combined with three Syracuse oarsmen to win the national four-with-cox championship; in the 1964 Olympic trials he rowed with the same group and finished second to Harvard's boat...