Word: knighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...needs discussion. But the only news conglomerate he mentioned was the Washington Post Co., which is hardly a giant in a field inhabited by the Newhouse chain (22 newspapers, seven TV stations, seven radio stations, 20 magazines), Scripps-Howard (16 newspapers, four TV stations, three radio stations) and the Knight group (eleven newspapers, six radio stations, one TV station...
...latest, and by no means least impersonation is by James Garner in Marlowe. Bogart is a tough act to follow, and none of the other Marlowes ever matched his blend of soluble morals and incorruptible conscience. Yet of all the Marlowes, Garner is physically closest to the invulnerable knight who could get sapped in the morning and crack a joke and a case by lunchtime...
...long friendship with Richard Nixon got him a new address in London as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Last week he announced he was also giving up the Inquirer. He sold both the morning Inquirer and its sister paper, the afternoon Daily News, to Knight Newspapers for about $55 million...
...sale surprised the staffs of both papers, who recalled another statement by Annenberg in the Inquirer last February that despite rumors, neither paper was on the market. It also surprised Knight Newspapers, whose president, Lee Hills, emphasized: "Annenberg came to us. But why he did so and what was on his mind, I cannot say." The only explanation Annenberg offered came in a prepared statement: "With the passing of my only son, there is no likely possibility of family transference, and hence my desire to ensure a future ownership in which I have confidence." This posed more questions than...
...Engineering and Applied Physics is really the white knight of this whole affair-they added the crucial amount of money," William H. Bossert 59, associate professor of Applied Mathematics and instructor of Natural Sciences 110 (Automatic Computing), said yesterday...