Word: hay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...selling Parade. Field Enterprises' Sunday supplement, to John Hay Whitney, U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's and controlling owner of the New York Herald Tribune, for $12 million, and by disposing of several other properties, Field raised the $18 million cash that Jack Knight asked for his 75% controlling interest in the News. Ultimately the buy will cost Field another $6,000,000. as minority stockholders, with some 120.000 shares, respond to his offer to buy them out at $50 a share-5 points over the market price. For this he gets an afternoon circulation...
When Multimillionaire Financier John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, 54, U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, bought the faltering New York Herald Tribune (circ. 377,400) from the Reid family last summer (TIME, Sept. 8), one of the main questions left unanswered was the future of boyish Ogden ("Brown") Reid, the paper's 33-year-old publisher and editor. Last week it was reported that Reid will leave his operating post on the Trib this month, with no fixed plans for the future. He will still be connected with the Trib: he and brother Whitelaw...
Married. Dick Haymes, 40, sometime singing cinemactor (State Fair) and Frances Ann Makris, 21; he for the fifth time (No. 2: Joanne Dru; No. 4: Rita Hay worth), she for the second; in Arlington...
...hear the pellets drop," says the kindly guard to the beautiful doll as he buckles her into the cyanide chamber, "take a deep breath and count ten. It's easier that way." The beautiful doll only flings him a sardonic question: "How do you know?" Barbara Graham (Susan Hay ward), according to this skillful screen version of the life and death of one of California's most celebrated criminals (TIME. June 13, 1955), is a woman who likes to find things out for herself. At 25, she has found out what it is like to be a vagrant...
Recession: Even as the U.S. began pulling out of its recession last spring, Democrats still made hay by labeling the G.O.P. as the Depression Party. But by last week, with signs of returned prosperity plain on all sides, the economic issue no longer cut so sharply into Republican chances. Thus, in hard-hit West Virginia, a Democratic poll taken last May showed 73% listing recession as the top political issue; this month the same poll showed recession tumbling to 49%-alongside the state's road-building program, at 48%. Similarly in New Jersey, Republican Senate Candidate Robert Kean...