Word: jocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lined with Legionnaires armed with Tommy guns. As the King stood at attention watching a parade of red-bereted paratroops, a bomb went off in the city behind him-the seventh in a week. Hussein took a flight in his personal Beechcraft with his onetime flying instructor, Wing Commander Jock Dalgleish, now back in Jordan as R.A.F. commander of the British airlift. As King Hussein brought his Beechcraft down for a perfect landing, one veteran British officer said companionably to another: "Just like old times...
Montana's Jack Westrope had what race-track people call "early foot." He was only twelve years old in 1930 when he rode his first winner on a bush-league track in Lemon, S. Dak. Just three years later the wiry little jock won his first race on a major track, and he went right on to boot home 300 more winners before that racing season ran out-the first of the modern riders to break past the 300 winners mark...
...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...
Last week the Trib's pressagent, Tex McCrary of TV-radio fame, admitted that at its present rate the Trib stood to lose $1,000,000 in the fiscal year ending in July 1959, conceded that Jock Whitney, his wartime friend and peacetime neighbor (Manhasset, L.I.), was considering taking over controlling interest in the Trib as a price for his help...
...exercising the option, says McCrary, and investing another $2,000,000 in the company, Whitney can get 60% control. An estimated $2,000,000 more will be needed to pay off debts and put the Trib on a sound operating basis. McCrary is certain Whitney will buy in ("Jock's a stayer"). But Reid shrugged off questions with "You'll have to ask Mr. Whitney." and in London, Whitney would say only: "My interest in the Herald Tribune is continuing. Further talks are going...