Word: knight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With the News gone, Cleveland last week buzzed with rumors that the Plain Dealer too was up for grabs, and that Chain Publisher John S. (Detroit Free Press) Knight was interested. Although the deal was denied on all sides, the reports got so much circulation that Forest City's President Graham felt it necessary to take a full-page ad in the Plain Dealer threatening to sue "any competing medium" that "continues to spread [the rumor], by printed word...
...Commander. Alan Lennox-Boyd, 55, the Tory's beleaguered former Colonial Secretary, was made a Companion of Honor, and Hugh Dalton, former Labor Chancellor of the Exchequer, was given a life peerage. Of special interest to the U.S.: Sir Roger Makins, from 1953 to 1956 Ambassador in Washington (Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath), and Major Cyril Berkeley Ormerod, 62, sometime professional officer, since 1945 the amiable and able director of public relations in Manhattan's British Information Services. Henceforth, Major Bill Ormerod will be Sir Berkeley...
Since Detroit's two other papers ran similar stories, their concerted defiance promptly blew up into a national journalistic cause célèbre. Never before had the loftily independent News, John S. Knight's crusading Free Press (circ. 498,912), and Hearst's scrappy but third-ranking Times (circ. 385,908) shown such editorial solidarity. Encouragement flowed in from all over, even from the bench: "The court's business is the public business," said Federal District Judge Arthur F. Lederle, who, convalescing in a Detroit hospital, had taken no part in the suppression order...