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...three Carolina cities. The Observer's gloomy makeup vanished in a wash of white space, new type, and pictures boldly played; its brighter columns carried livelier, shorter stories. Inevitably the Observer, historically dominant, stole further circulation and advertising marches on the News. By last year News Publisher Thomas Lambard Robinson, watching his paper slip below the break-even point, put it on the block, as a last resort offered it to Jim Knight...
Like most buildups, this one was fast, furious and frequently confused. Officers and units were grabbed wherever the Pentagon could find them. Captain Allen C. Lambard, a radio air control officer stationed in Guam, was yanked out of bed and ordered to pack his gear at 2 a.m. Air Force Brigadier General Avelin P. Tacon was flagged down by state police on a California highway. To General Tacon's intense surprise, the cops showed no interest in the fact that he was doing 70 in a 55-mile-an-hour zone. Their mission was to tell him that...
When Thomas Lambard Robinson got out of the Navy ten years ago, he had a secondhand Dodge, $20,000 in savings and a burning ambition to own a daily newspaper. On a tour of the U.S. looking for a likely buy, he decided on the Charlotte (N.C.) News, which then had a circulation of 53,837 and was the largest afternoon daily in the Carolinas. The price was high, upwards...
...Lambard received his A.B., M.B.A., and D.C.S degrees from Harvard and was an assistant dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration from 1936 to '40. Since 1946 he has been an associate professor of Human Relations...
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