Word: joustings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
After her losing joust with Kennedy. Reporter McClendon fell unnaturally silent-inspired, perhaps, by word from State Department Legal Adviser Abram Chayes, who said that her statement to Kennedy was "defamatory on its face." Besides, what was the point in more talk...
...Hustler. A young pool shark (Paul Newman) takes on the old champion (Jackie Gleason) in a sort of chivalric joust on the Cloth of Green. In the hands of Director Robert Rossen, the uncouth theme rings as true as a struck spittoon...
...Hustler. A young pool shark (Paul Newman) takes on the old champion (Jackie Gleason) in a sort of chivalric joust on the Cloth of Green. In the hands of Director Robert Rossen, the uncouth theme rings as true as a struck spittoon...