Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fired." Get-Together Club. The news that he was out was as big a surprise to Annenberg as it was to News staffers. While Annenberg was vacationing in Phoenix, Ariz., he got a phone call from the News's President F. M. (for Francis Marion) Flynn. Said "Jack" Flynn: "I'd like to have your resignation immediately." Flynn, says Annenberg, charged that Annenberg had "mismanaged" the News's circulation department. Annenberg flew back to New York the same day to talk things over with the boss. When he got to his office in the News building, there...
...dailies-scattered across the U.S. from New York to Oregon-are pro-Republican. The publisher: Samuel I. (for Irving) Newhouse, 59, who in the past ten years has moved to the top ranks of U.S. publishing right behind Hearst and Scripps-Howard and, counting Sunday circulation, just ahead of Jack Knight. Last week, in a typically unorthodox manner, Publisher Newhouse took the biggest step in his fast-stepping career...
...near miss with a literate, well-cast play called Shadow of the Champ. On a transatlantic voyage, Broadway's Lee Grant, the disenchanted sister of a sportswriter, is thrown together with Eli Wallach, the boyhood chum and adult hanger-on of the heavyweight champion of the world (Jack Warden), and slowly draws him away from his lifelong shadow-like attachment to the champ. Scene after scene was nicely drawn, particularly those sketching the almost Oriental retinue that trails after a champion boxer, but the play as a whole failed to carry conviction...
Beating Krider into town by a day, Wolfson gave a new set of supporters, inluding Restaurateur Toots Shor, Jack Dempsey and Joe and Dom DiMaggio, a glowing report on the earnings and divi-lend records of his companies. Wolfson aid that he would propose a three-for-one tock split and a 40? quarterly dividend hat would bring stockholders $1.80 more han the present $3 rate. An uproar started when Lewis Gilbert, perennial heckler at many a stockholder meeting, jumped up shouting to be heard. Gilbert wanted o know how Wolfson could tell the press ast October that he controlled...
...Gola, Jack Steepens, Ed Conlon, Jesse Arnelle, Dick Hemric and company controlled both backboards and played good solid ball, never getting tense under the Globetrotters' tight defense...