Word: knights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whole program looked very much like the same pie from which William Benton's postwar information plan for the State Department was sliced (TIME, Jan. 28). Benton's proposals were far milder. Last week, news tycoons found the pie unpalatable. Publisher John S. Knight (Chicago Daily News, Miami Herald, etc.) called it "a hazard to free reporting," a long step toward a U.S. or U.N. dominated press. Said U.P. President Hugh Baillie (whose outfit, along with A.P., the report roundly rapped for refusing to Jet the State" Department broadcast their news abroad in peacetime): "I cannot think...
...Charles II, the "Merry Monarch," tore himself away from his mistresses long enough to consider the stars. They must be, he decided, "anew observed, examined and corrected, for the use of his seamen." Forthwith he commanded "our trusty and well-beloved Sir Christopher Wren, Knight" to build "a small observatory within our park at Greenwich . . . with all convenient speed." Those were bargain days. Sir Christopher tore down a gatehouse in the Tower of London and a fort at Tilbury. With the salvaged stone and timber, and with ?520 from the sale of old gunpowder, he ran up a building...
Townshend J. Knight '49--Betty Eames (Winsor...
...Church of England's Commission on Evangelism wanted to hire an advertising agency. Some argued that church-going should be put across with the kind of bang-up press and poster campaign that makes a cathartic into a national habit. Canon Marcus Knight of St. Paul's Cathedral was not enthusiastic. Observed the Canon at a Commission meeting: "There would be a real danger of having a portly bishop sitting on a Noah's Ark in a stormy sea, with a slogan, 'The Church of England prevents that sinking feeling...
...Knight had not won a race since 1944, and Trainer Charlie Leavitt almost scratched him-but Owner Ethel Hill insisted that he run. He ran as he never had before, nosed out the dapple-grey favorite, First Fiddle, in a four-horse photo finish. To the owner, a Hollywood scenario writer, went a gold cup, a $101,220 purse, and a cool handshake from her boss, Louis B. Mayer, whose entry (Be Faithful) finished seventh...