Word: granting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cover) Out from Miami's palm-lined Biscayne Bay headed the 71-ft. white-hulled motor cruiser High Tide, bound for a day of fishing in the Gulf Stream. At a table on her afterdeck sat the High Tide's owner: Harry J. (for Johnston) Grant, 72, a florid-faced millionaire with china-blue eyes, a mouthful of flashing gold teeth, and the booming voice of a sideshow barker. But energetic, stubby (5 ft. 8¾ in., 220 Ibs.) Harry Grant did not act like the run of carefree yachtsmen. When he was not tending the deep...
...hours of the day, he stopped everything else while he concentrated on an evening newspaper that had been airmailed from 1,268 miles away. The newspaper: the Milwaukee Journal (circ. 339,532). Harry Grant was no ordinary reader -and the Journal is no ordinary paper. Harry Grant is boss of the Journal, which he has made into one of the best newspapers in the U.S. He has also made it one of the most controversial...
None of this bothers Harry Grant, who talks about the Journal with the purple sweep of a Fourth of July orator and the fervor of an evangelist. Says he: "The Journal must be our Fair Lady. We must have freedom, freedom, freedom-not to be willful, or bigoted, or swell-headed, or to give us delusions of grandeur-but so that the Journal can act entirely as it thinks best for the community. The Journal is above our frailties. The Journal's job is to serve the public. It can't be anything else...
Fifty-One Million. Board Chairman Grant himself lives in Milwaukee only six months of the year. The rest of the time is spent on High Tide or in his home on Biscayne Bay; they are the paper's nerve center and Grant's office. Grant makes "the Journal's decisions whenever I want and wherever I am," and "nobody's ever challenged that." There is little reason for challenge. Under Grant, the Journal's fat (up to 100 pages) weekday and Sunday (up to 400 pages) editions average 1,140 columns of local, national...
Professor Boris Mirkine-Guetzevitch will teach Government 112, replacing Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government, now in England on a Fulbright grant. The course will cover parliamentary government and party politics in Europe...