Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good old Front Page tradition, Chicago is probably the most competitive newspaper town in the U.S. Four daily newspapers, owned by two companies, still battle for news beats and circulation, advertising and impact. In the morning, the late Colonel Robert R. McCormick's Chicago Tribune stands grandly against the up-and-coming Sun-Times of the late Marshall Field. In the afternoon, the McCormick forces are represented briskly by the ex-Hearst Chicago's American; Field Enterprises publish the once-great Daily News...
...Trib, on the other hand, is proud of its tradition, thank you. Editor Don Maxwell, 67, was handpicked for his job by the late Colonel McCormick. Maxwell, in turn, has hand-picked his successor, Managing Editor Clayton Kirkpatrick, 52. "The Tribune is what it is today," says Maxwell, "because we have a tradition. Editor Joseph Medill instructed the directors of the Tribune in his will: 'I hope you will always be able to remain Republican but always show good sense.' I don't think the Tribune will ever become flighty. Not so long as I am here...
Harsh Terms. The America's Cup is the closest thing to a Holy Grail in sport. "On no other sporting prize," wrote the late Everett B. Morris, in his definitive history Sailing for America's Cup, "has so much gold, technical virtuosity, brainpower and brawn been expended." The contest, not the old Victorian silver ewer, is the thing. In the demands it makes on boat and man, it is the ultimate, the very pinnacle in yachting. What started 116 years ago as a gentlemen's lark, has become a proving ground for technocrats, a vast public spectacle...
Married. Vince Edwards, 39, TV's Ben Casey for five years, currently trying it as a nightclub balladeer and Hollywood actor (Too Late Blues); and Linda Ann Foster, 23, TV starlet (Hank); he for the second time; in the Beverly Hills home of Dean Martin, who introduced them at a dinner party last year...
...hemophilia: it put the imperial pair in the oily hands of Rasputin, whose prayers they believed would heal their more than fragile son Alexis. Rasputin not only destroyed the morale of the aristocracy, he also made it impossible for Nicholas to heed sensible advice until it was too late. And he fatally fractured the image of the Czar in the mind of the masses. The imperial pair saw a calumniated saint in Rasputin; the people, in the words of a monarchist member of the Duma, saw "the beastly, drunken unclean face of a bald satyr from Tobolsk...