Word: knights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...purchase of the fourth largest U.S. afternoon paper (circ. 434,938),* trim, balding John Shively Knight became one of the nation's most potent publishers. He was already one of the most prosperous. His Akron Beacon-Journal, Miami Herald and Detroit Free Press are smoothly run, highly profitable...
Success Story. Knight, who is 50 this week, had come up fast in eleven years. Starting as an ad-taker and reporter, with time out for service in World War I as lieutenant and air observer, he had run two small Ohio papers, finally became managing editor of his father's Akron Beacon-Journal. But until his father died in 1933, no one in Akron noticed much about Cornell-trained Jack Knight except that he was a pleasant fellow with a flair for good clothes and winning at golf. His father's death left the Beacon-Journal with...
...will go to Margaret when I am gone," said Emily, stroking Margaret's hand. But a few days later Emily went to see Roger Sherman's stamp collection. He whispered: "Dear Emily, I think of you as a lily, swaying on its stem. . . . Let me be your knight. . . . We shall seek for ... truth, together." "What if we don't find it?" asked Emily gloomily. But Roger knew she had accepted him. "Shall you tell Margaret?" he asked. "Not yet," said Emily nervously...
Married. Dorothy Ledyard Knight, former wife of Manhattan's hooligan Lawyer Richard Allen Knight, who once stood on his head outside the Metropolitan Opera House; and Reville Kniffen, 39, onetime cinema executive, now vice president of Zenith Home Products; in Reno Nev. Fumed ex-Husband Knight: "He's nothing but a traveling salesman-a peddler of B-pictures. . . . She's headline-crazy. Mrs. Knight will come crawling back...
...sales came to a hushed pause during the concert. Shushed by indignantly reverent ushers, the fidgety fans sat in embarrassed silence, stretched their voices in relief after the sacred ceremony of music. Philip Knight Wrigley, backer of the League and chief matchmaker in its marriage to music, was solemnly enthusiastic. He has long been eager to try any scheme, however dignified, which might promote his Midwestern softball carnival...