Word: knights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition, Frank Gleason and Frank Knight, diving respectively for the Quakers and the Cadets, have shown well--well enough, in fact, to assure the Crimson's Greg Stone and Duane Murner of real competition. Army's Don Johnstone may prove a sleeper off the board...
...left flank, a knight in half-polished breastplates and only part-plumed helmet that he had not expected to use until spring, rode Pierre Mendès-France. With him were allied the Socialists, numerically strong but not strong enough, the pundits guessed, to carry Mendès to power. The Communists, though reduced in numbers and caught in contradictions of policy, rode the guerrilla trails in confident expectation of gaining 20 or 30 seats. Also present were roughhousing bully squads organized by brash young Anti-Taxer Pierre Poujade to tear down candidates and break up opposition meetings, Fascist-style...
Early this year, to the surprise of no one, California's Governor Goodwin J. Knight announced that he was a "nominal" candidate for the Republican presidential nomination. He wants the yoman California delegation pledged 1) to President Eisenhower, if he chooses to run, and 2) to Goodie himself if Ike is not a candidate. The governor's announcement was a warning to others-especially Vice President Richard Nixon-who might covet the delegation for themselves and try to capture it at next June's primary. This week Knight underscored the warning with another announcement of considerable significance...
...York Timesman Meyer Berger, who is often called the best U.S. reporter, says: "Ed Lahey is the best reporter in America." Next week, Reporter Lahey, 53, will take over from Veteran Paul R. (for Roscoe) Leach, 65, who is retiring as head of the Washington bureau for John S. Knight's Chicago Daily News and the other Knight newspapers (the Detroit Free Press, Akron Beacon-Journal, Miami Herald, Charlotte Observer...
Although Ed Lahey has been assigned to Knight's Washington bureau for 15 years, he has steadfastly resisted the occupational urge to become a pundit. "I don't know anything duller than an expert," says Lahey. "I have constantly striven for superficiality. The best stories are written by guys who don't know anything about the subject. A kid who goes in cold to cover a labor convention may make it sing." Because of his own talent for going in cold to tackle a top story, Ed Lahey, who calls himself a "paid free lancer," has roved...