Word: jr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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JOSEPH L. RAUH JR. Vice Chairman Americans for Democratic Action Washington
...Done. The two Canadians-George G. Dingman Jr., 34, whose father publishes the reputable Times-Journal (circ. 10,720) of St. Thomas, Ont., and a sometime salesman named Joseph Dyson-worked out of London, Ont. To milk the contests, they set up a nonexistent newspaper, rented a post-office box for a nonexistent bank. Then they solicited two of the several U.S. syndicates that peddle prize contests to newspapers and that insist on sending solutions, as a precaution, to banks (or some other unimpeachable agency). In due time the phony newspaper began receiving the puzzles-and the phony bank began...
...Provençal, play an occasional game of bridge, manage to take in nearly every Broadway opening. At his death, Newhouse's empire (which he estimates at $150 million-$200 million) will go into a nonprofit educational trust; the business will be run by his two sons, S.I. Jr., 31, and Don, 29. But Mr. S.I. Sr., at 63, is looking ahead only to his next purchase, even now is talking with the money-losing Rome Daily American (circ...
This impressive public acceptance comes as no surprise to Mortimer Adler (TIME cover, March 17, 1952), who has never downgraded the human brain, including his own. The column was, in fact, his own idea, proposed last year to Marshall Field Jr., Sun-Times publisher and onetime Adler disciple (in what Adler calls "the Fat Man's class,'' the Great Books course he gives to business executives). Adler's argument was that newspaper readers think: "The American public can understand more than we credit it with...
...wrote 54 western novels that sold more than 25 million copies, started the mass exploitation of the Wister formula that soon turned the western story into a beltline business. Only since World War II have the cliches been rescued by a serious set of younger writers-A. B. Guthrie Jr. (The Way West), Tom Lea (The Wonderful Country), Dorothy Johnson (The Hanging Tree...