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...threat title of publisher-president-editor. "Brownie" Reid set out to counter the Times's thoroughness with livelier stories, editorial fun and promotion games. But heading out in the new direction, the Modern Republican Trib slumped badly, last September went to its good friend, Modern Republican John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, 53, currently Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, for a reported $2,000,000 loan...
...With Jock's jack in hand, hard-working Brownie Reid enriched his improvement formula, reorganized and improved news coverage and the editorial page, happily watched circulation creep up to 37,400 by March. But as the Trib struggled and talked wistfully of the desirability of going to 10? on the city newsstands (the afternoon-paper price in New York City), the Times held coolly to its 5? price and made money, while the Trib, competitively held at a nickel, slipped into...
...Bounds. In Vancouver, B.C., Golf Pro Jock McKinnon learned from doctors that he is allergic to grass...
...days later, on a 50-to-1 shot, Bill finished out of the money once more. But Corbin was satisfied. He said, "All right, you'll ride Nickleby tomorrow, and he'll win." The new jock was still riding scared. "When I got up on Nickleby," says Hartack, "I just sat and posed. I never moved, never hit him or nothing. If I'd 'a hit him I'd have fallen off, I was so frightened. But Nickleby win and paid $18, and I break my maiden [i.e., won his first race...
...diplomats in almost every major capital of the free world could sympathize with Jock Whitney's predicament. Reason: foreign antagonism to the U.S. Secretary of State, long serious but diffuse, is becoming more and more a concentrated and measurable factor in world affairs. "Damned Dulles!" swore an Indian lawyer in Calcutta last week. "He is responsible for the tensions of the world! He is not allowing the Americans to come to terms with the Russians!" Added a high French Cabinet minister in Paris: "This man thinks like a theologian. Eisenhower is the mystic. Dulles is the theologian...