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...Baker, 62, founder in 1934 and president until his retirement in 1961 of National Airlines, an autocratic Chicagoan who flew his first plane at 16, bulled National from a small mail carrier to the nation's eighth largest line (2,311,000 passengers last year), strong enough to joust with giant Eastern Air Lines on the rich New York-Miami route, where he drummed up trade with the first cut-rate day-coach fares, packaged vacations and scored an impressive coup in 1958 by leasing Boeing 707s from Pan American, thus making National first to fly jets in domestic...
There were not enough hours for Ervin to complete his joust with Bobby. This week they will meet again across the committee table. For how long? Well, smiled Ervin, "it depends on his answers to some of my questions. I haven't got started yet. I've just got through the preamble. Since we're going to be here until Christmas Eve or thereabouts, we can go about this matter with a certain amount of calmness and slowness"-he paused an instant for effect-"and deliberate speed...
...play Benny's living room than any theater on earth. Equally loyal to his TV staff, Benny hasn't hired a new writer for 14 years; he freely acknowledges his large debt to them, and when Fred Allen was once out-talking him in an ad-lib joust, he said testily that if only his writers were with him he could make Allen look silly...
...this curious journalistic joust for a prize that both men publicly disavow. Graham has already shown a lordly appetite for possessions. Beginning with the Post, which his father-in-law left him. he has latched onto a newsmagazine and two broadcasting stations. In company with the Los Angeles Times, he pasted together a news syndicate (TIME. July 13) with the second biggest news bureau in Washington (after the New York Times) and an impressive spread of foreign correspondents. On the private preserve of John Hay Whitney, publisher of the New York Herald Tribune, he went poaching for big game...
...Wall Street Journal invoked the spirit of its founder, Charles Dow and his "trigger theory" of market slumps ("when the stock market has run its upward course it often takes a 'great event' to trigger its fall"), fingered Kennedy's joust with steel as the trigger. The Journal ventilated other grudges: "True, there were a few little [economic] problems. But the Administration was going to solve the dollar problem abroad by cutting Aunt Bessie's customs allowance. It was going to spur business by suing nearly every major company under the antitrust laws, and hold down...