Word: damned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...full of totally rational publishers who never did a damn thing for their papers. Under Phil Graham, we at least had the potential of being a great newspaper, nationally and internationally." So spoke a Washington Post & Times Herald staffer last week, and many another stricken colleague echoed his impulsive obituary. If their reactions seemed curiously defiant, it was because their energetic, engaging boss, whose rapidly expanding press empire consisted of the Washington Post, News week, two art magazines, a pair of profitable TV stations and a burgeoning news service, had for more than a year been suffering from a mentalailment...
...beatings, manhandlings and incredible indignities which have been forced on whites and blacks whom the police have picked out. Northern liberals don't seem to realize, for how could they ever know, that police in Southern cities, particularly those with smart police chiefs like Pritchett, can do whatever they damn well please and get away with...
...That baby looks like he don't give a damn...
...Johnston Grant, 81, publisher of the Milwaukee Journal, one of the biggest (circ. 361,875) and most prosperous dailies, a onetime textileman who took over from Lucius Nieman in 1919 and made the Journal the chronicle of Beertown, ordering exhaustive local and national coverage, extreme independence (leading liberals to damn it as too conservative, while Wisconsin's late Senator McCarthy dubbed it "the Milwaukee edition of the Worker"), saw his paper play a major role in giving Milwaukee the Braves and one of the nation's lowest crime rates; after a long illness; in Milwaukee...
...touch. For John Paul Jones, he bought two proud vessels in Genoa that promptly ran aground on the Spanish coast, unseaworthy and unsalvageable. He had been taken by the crafty Genoese. But he has since rented the relics to other film companies in search of fresh shipwrecks (Billy Budd, Damn the Defiant), not only recovering his entire investment but also making a fat profit. Even his blunders...