Word: kaminer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...last week to hear the first progress report on the daily that 1,100 Limaites had pitched in to start (TIME, July 15). For the owners, ranging from the president of Lima's telephone company to a 13-year-old Citizen carrier boy. Publishers James Howenstine and Sam Kamin had nothing but good news. Founded on $300,000 to fight the 25-year-old Lima News after crusty old Raymond Cyrus Hoiles and his Freedom Newspapers had turned it into a soapbox for his ultrareactionary views, the Citizen had edged out of the red after only two months...
Even more important for the Citizen's survival, said Publisher Kamin, is its owners' duty "to see that apathy does not creep into Lima." Said he: "We have sought to build a paper that the community can be proud of. We are here to do a good job of publishing a newspaper, not to carry on a feud...
...have made a comeback if it had not been for its top ad salesman, tall (6 ft. 4 in.), persuasive Wayne G. Current. Live-wire Current, who quit the paper when Publisher McDowell cut commissions, decided to rally financial support for a new daily in Lima, and approached Sam Kamin and James A. Howenstine, two self-made industrialists who head Lima's Neon Products, Inc. (1956 gross: $7,000,000). The partners put up $100,000 and, at Current's suggestion, decided to sell $200,000 worth of stock in order to make the new paper a community...
Middle-of-the-Road Survival. Last week the first, fat issue of the evening Citizen rolled off the presses in a converted warehouse. Within hours 8,000 newsstand copies had been snapped up; subscribers jammed the Citizen's switchboard with calls of congratulation. Said Kamin: "With the climate Hoiles created, we couldn't miss...
McCarthy first tangled with "Communist" professors here in November, 1953, when he summoned Wendell H. Furry, associate professor of Physics, before his subcommittee. On January 17, 1954, he summoned Furry and Leon J. Kamin '49, former research assistant in Social Relations, before his subcommittee hearing in Boston, at which time the two declined to use the fifth amendment...