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Following fast on the heels of another lurid Texas trial-a Houston civil-court jury last month cleared Oilman Ash Robinson of charges that he had conspired to murder his son-in-law-the trial of Cullen Davis has all the trappings of a suburban western. One August night in 1976, a black-wigged intruder broke into the $6 million Fort Worth mansion where Davis' estranged wife Priscilla lived with a new lover, ex-Basketball Player Stan Farr. In the shooting rampage that followed, Farr and Andrea Wilborn, 12, Priscilla's daughter by a previous marriage, were left...
...wildly divergent as the testimony was, with the money and life of a millionaire at stake, every story had some plausibility. "You have Cullen Davis and Priscilla," summed up ex-Prosecutor Judge George Dowlen. "Both know exactly what happened, and who is telling the truth and who is lying. No one else can say for a certainty...
...Post has not always been undistinguished. Founded in 1801 by Alexander Hamilton, it has been edited by some of the great names in American letters: William Cullen Bryant, E.L. Godkin, Carl Schurz. Schiff, who was born into a prominent Manhattan banking family, bought the money-losing Post in 1939 for her second husband, George Backer. They were later divorced, and she eventually assumed near-dictatorial control of the paper. Aided by a generally liberal editorial line, the Post survived as other New York dailies died...
...Exhibition, the Republican convention in Cincinnati. (He rejects his editor's invitation to go West and write about the Indians; the massacre of troops led by General George A. Custer convinces Schuyler that he was right to refuse.) Leading writers and politicos traverse the pages of 1876: William Cullen Bryant...
...Time Inc. has been prepared to meet the 75% ownership rule, and the company last spring produced a sample issue of a newsmagazine that devoted 41% of its space to Canadian news, instead of the present 12% to 15%. But in October, newly named Minister of National Revenue Jack Cullen, who would be in charge of enforcing the law, announced that "substantially" different editorial content meant at least 80% different. Both publishers insist that figure is unattainable. Says Stephen S. LaRue, president of TIME Canada Ltd.: "We'd be wallpapering the magazine with filler, and it would no longer...