Word: knights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Ervin Kotowski was installed recently as grand knight of Milwaukee's largest Knights of Columbus Council, he got a telegram of congratulations from Circuit Judge Claire Voss, imperial potentate of the city's big Tripoli Masonic Shrine. Exclaimed Kotowski: "Imagine the Shriners congratulating me!" A lot of brotherly things that would have been hard to imagine a few years ago are happening today be tween the Roman Catholic Knights and their longtime antagonists, the predominantly Protestant Masons...
...several years, the thriving morning Herald, the country's No. 5 paper in total ad linage, has steadily outstripped the afternoon News, Miami's only other daily. While Herald circulation rose to 381,000, the News slipped to 119,000. But Herald Publisher John S. Knight, president of the Knight chain, did not want to buy the liberal-leaning News; and News Publisher James M. Cox Jr., whose six-paper chain includes the Atlanta Constitution, was loath to fold his Miami outlet...
...savings will be enough to put it in the black. The Herald will get a clear field on Sundays, since the Sunday News has been folded. If the Miami merger succeeds, the big gainer will be the city. The alternative is a one-paper town, which Cox and Knight are trying to avoid. Each publisher feels that Miamians should hear more than one editorial opinion...
...helped sever her from the stern Lutheranism that her father preached by the sword. Contrary to the religious statutes of her country, Christina converted secretly to Roman Catholicism in 1654. She left Sweden ostensibly to visit a spa to the south, then set out across Germany disguised as a knight, and a year and a half later entered Rome regally. Legend has it that she wore embroidered gilt breeches to her first Communion...
...dragon of televisionland is the Nielsen ratings service, and this spring its foes gleefully thought that they had found a white knight to slay it. Their champion was Richard ("Rex") Sparger, an ex-reporter and former Oklahoma state legislator, who boasted publicly that he "could make a hit of a show that was a failure." He also claimed that he had kited the ratings of four programs, notably last February's CBS special An Evening with Carol Charining...