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Backing into the newspaper business as a $100 investor in the nearly defunct Marion Star, Harding built it into a modest moneymaker, Russell claims, though apparently it was Harding's wife Florence (the "Duchess") who strong-armed both the newspaper and the man into success. A virago of a woman five years older than her "Wurr'n," she was the one driving masculine principle in her husband's life-the force that thrust him upward out of the comfortable country editor's chair in which Harding liked to slump in a "digestive trance" after lunch...
...Millionairess--Possibly Bernard Shaw's last great play, at any rate one of his funniest. Not to be confused with the movie of the same title, or the now-defunct TV series. At the CHARLES, 76 Warrenton...
Since 1882, there has been no serious attempt to unseat the stockholders' proposed slate, Morrill said yesterday. In 1964. Sheldon Dietz '41, owner of the now defunct Club 47, put forth a six-man slate of architects. His proposal aborted, however, since he did not have the architects' consent and failed to get anywhere near a quorum...
Time and again, in response to such questions from defense attorneys, Publisher Ralph Ginzburg and Editor Warren Boroson, of the now defunct magazine Fact, replied with an unqualified no. Both men insisted that their 1964 article depicting Barry Goldwater as a paranoiac, a latent homosexual and a latter-day Hitler, was simply fair comment on a presidential candidate's fitness for office (TIME, May 17). It was of no importance, they claimed, that only 20% of the psychiatrists they polled had even bothered to answer their admittedly loaded questionnaire. Nor did it matter that more than half of those...
...Sack, movie houses became more addictive than Frito's. In 1952, Sack found himself again in another project. This time he was to re-open the defunct Beacon Hill. Days before his first Boston opening, the other investors pulled out. Sack hung on and ended up in the black. The pattern became a familiar one. Choose an unsuccessful or closed theatre, buy it, refurbish it, re-open it. With standardized procedures and good publicity, Ben Sack began to make good...