Word: harold
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When Philadelphia Attorney Harold Stassen, 53, one of the most former of U.S. political bigwigs, wrote the Kennedy Administration last week urging U.N. membership for two Germanys and two Chinas, the United Press International dutifully dispatched the news to subscribing papers. In New York, the exhaustive ("All the News That's Fit to Print") Times ignored the item, and the tabloid Daily News put it on the obituary page...
Four Lords. The fight over Odhams raised a huge ruckus-to the point where Prime Minister Harold Macmillan finally stepped in and ordered the appointment of a Royal Commission to investigate the entire British press situation. It seemed high time. The take-over of Odhams by either King or Thomson would accelerate a postwar trend toward merger and monopoly, sped by rising labor and production costs and serious advertising losses to television, that has placed control of more than half Britain's newspaper circulation in the hands of four press lords. Besides King and Thomson, the giants...
...Harold C. Martin, director of Gen Ed Ahf supports his proposal, Stookey noted. But he emphasized that any plan to change the status of the course must be approved by the Administrative Board...
Prime Minister Harold Macmillan was not on the front bench to hear his son's attack on his government. But next day the Prime Minister was ready when at question time a Labor M.P. slyly asked if there was "a rift in the family or something...
...among other aging celebrators, Playwrights Marc Connelly and Russel Crouse were there, Writer-Feminist Jane Grant (first wife of The New Yorker's Harold Ross), Actress Margalo Gillmore, Composer Deems Taylor, and Author Margaret Case Harriman, who helped preserve the nights and noons of the Round Table with her book, The Vicious Circle. But the contracted circle no longer showed any viciousness, only a kind of vintage grace along with mild confessions and geriatric observations. "There must be a gang such as ours somewhere today," said Jane Grant. "But, of course, times have changed. For one thing, the writers...