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...after two recessions [1958 and 1960-61] occurring in fairly rapid succession." Added to this is a fundamental shift of consumer spending from hard and soft goods to such services as travel, culture, health, beauty, insurance and brokerage fees-none of which show up on the businessman's ledger in the same solid way as the purchase of goods...
When he died in 1951, at 88, the remnants of his empire passed to his sons. But actual control went to hard-eyed businessmen who, in their own way, have proved as ruthless as The Chief. Interested primarily in the ledger book, these men have sold off four Hearstpapers (while adding one, the Albany, N.Y. Knickerbocker News). From its high-water mark, the list is down to 13 dailies. Hearst's profitable magazine holdings have been expanded. The new management has also committed the ultimate desecration by logging Wyntoon...
Carlo Crivelli bounds into history with an entry in the ledger of the Venetian court, which on March 7, 1457, fined him 200 lire and sentenced him to six months in prison. The sentence was not particularly harsh, for Crivelli, it seems, had abducted a married lady named Tarsia and kept her hidden in his brother's house for months. The court records refer to him as a painter, and historians think that he may have been about 25 at the time. But aside from this adventure in "abduction, adultery and concubinage," the few scraps known about Crivelli indicate...
Columnist David Lawrence, the Newark Star-Ledger and the Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle raised the possibility of a Cuban blockade, and there was wide agreement with the opinion of Ralph McGill, publisher of the Atlanta Constitution, that "Castro will, soon or late, have to go." Hearst Columnist George Sokolsky recommended a prompt armed invasion of Cuba by the U.S.: "Certainly, time is wasting. Do we have to stand still until Soviet Russia has established a missile and a submarine base in Cuba...
...Scout. Mother was a writer too, the author of Life in the Iron Mills, a notable piece of pioneer realism; Father was a newsman who from 1893 to 1904 edited the Philadelphia Public Ledger. Neither of them seems to have guessed what was wrong with their son, and indeed the trouble was not obvious. Dick as a boy was anything but a sissy. He loved to fight, hated school. At 18 he entered Lehigh University, promptly failed chemistry but made himself the freshman class hero by taking on twelve sophomores singlehanded. He also became a star athlete-and flunked...