Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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In the summer of 1907, Edward Wyllis Scripps, the eccentric Ohio newspaper entrepreneur, strung together a ragtag assortment of reporters, telegraph operators and rewrite men to form the United Press. Though the fledgling wire service had just $500 in working capital, Scripps gave it a difficult mission: take on the...
Last week U.P.I. President Roderick Beaton announced a plan to put his wire service back in the black by ripping a page from A.P.'s ticker: turning U.P.I. into a cooperative of sorts. U.P.I. has invited more than 100 of its largest newspaper and broadcasting clients to become limited...
Many editors feel that whatever U.P.I. lacks in size it makes up for in hustle. "U.P.I. has a well-developed No. 2 feeling, and they often try harder," says Mort Rosenblum, editor of the Paris-based International Herald Tribune and a former A.P. correspondent. U.P.I. reporters have grown accustomed to...
Chretien, a bartender and an exMarine, was being divorced by his wife. After finishing work and a couple of beers one night, according to trial testimony, he burst into the couple's former home and dragged Mrs. Chretien upstairs to their old bedroom. In a similar case that went...
If this is Friday, that must be the touring Cleveland Orchestra that Lorin Maazel, 49, is conducting at London's Royal Festival Hall. Maazel, who is fluent in English, French and German, also works with the French Orchestre National and has agreed as well to direct and conduct at...