Word: knights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Anderson appears to many as a white knight on a crusade, but to those of us in the mainstream of political life, he is Don Quixote, leading his befuddled followers down a hopeless, inane road...
Italy awarded Ussia its "Cross of Knight," the equivalent of an English knighthood, in 1972 for his cultural services to the Republic. He has won numerous professional awards for his projects, including the design of the mechanical and electrical systems for the Midwest Coliseum, a 20,000-seat arena in Richfield, Ohio, and home of the Cleveland Cavaliers...
Newspaper groups have an energetic defender in Neuharth, a wiry (5 ft. 7 in., 150 lbs.) imp with an athletic walk, a lopsided grin and a supremely self-confident air. Born and raised in South Dakota, he made a name for himself at the Miami Herald, a Knight (now Knight-Ridder) paper, where he rose from reporter to assistant managing editor in four years, and later at Knight's Detroit Free Press. Neuharth joined Gannett in 1963 and was president by 1970, leading some colleagues to snipe that his rise came a little too fast. "When Al wears...
Like Neuharth, Gannett papers are invariably well packaged, smartly designed and slickly promoted. In overall quality they run several furlongs behind Knight-Ridder but ahead of just about every other large chain. Neuharth argues that Gannett has never acquired a paper it did not improve. This is testimony partly to the sorry quality of medium-sized papers in the U.S. But it is also true that Gannett has expunged the rabid right-wing excesses from a few of its papers-notably those in Springfield, Mo., and Nashville -and dramatically upgraded other properties, like the Camden (N.J.) Courier-Post. As even...
Critics find many Gannett papers parochial and uninspired, as wholesome as enriched bread but often just as bland. Even many Gannett hands are frustrated by the company's failure to produce one truly outstanding daily. A comparison is often made with Knight-Ridder, which purchased the struggling Philadelphia Inquirer in 1969 and spent millions righting it. The Inquirer, which last week won its sixth consecutive Pulitzer, now stands comfortably in the black and high in the esteem of U.S. journalists. For some of Gannett's employees, it will take more than last week's Pulitzer to make...