Word: knights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scattered across the U.S. from New York to Oregon-are pro-Republican. The publisher: Samuel I. (for Irving) Newhouse, 59, who in the past ten years has moved to the top ranks of U.S. publishing right behind Hearst and Scripps-Howard and, counting Sunday circulation, just ahead of Jack Knight. Last week, in a typically unorthodox manner, Publisher Newhouse took the biggest step in his fast-stepping career...
Nice & Busy. The differences between Knight and Nixon are both personal and political. Some Californians trace open signs of ill will to a 1952 campaign incident, when Knight was brushed off (and shoved out of camera range) when he showed up to welcome Nixon at a California airport. Ever since then. Goody has spoken sulphurously of Dick in private, and the California G.O.P. central committee, which the governor controls, has slighted the Vice President instead of offering him the traditional home-state support. Last week the governor welcomed the Vice President with the warmth of an arctic midnight...
...Angeles World Affairs Council, to make a report on his recent Caribbean trip (TIME, March 14). Local G.O.P. leaders decided to welcome him with a party gathering, made plans for a luncheon at the Ambassador Hotel. "It was agreed," said Los Angeles County G.O.P. Chairman John Krehbiel, "that Governor Knight should be honorary chairman." But when Krehbiel phoned to ask the governor, Goody was not enthusiastic. "That's nice." he said, "but I'll have to look at my calendar...
Gentle as a Razor. When Vice President Nixon arrived at the Ambassador on the appointed day, the hotel was jammed with a record turnout of 2,520 cheering California Republicans. Absent: Governor Knight, Knight's Lieutenant Governor Harold J. Powers and Knight's State G.O.P. Chairman Thomas W. Caldecott. Goody Knight's telegraphed message was so obviously cool that Luncheon Chairman Krehbiel would not read it out or show it to reporters...
...razor blade, he named and praised outstanding California Republicans. He had something good to say about U.S. Senators William F. Knowland and Thomas H. Kuchel; he mentioned former Governor (now U.S. Chief Justice) Earl Warren. But never once did he utter the name of Goodwin J. Knight. There was only a passing reference to "our present governor...