Word: lee
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...Founder Horace Greeley in 1872. Whitney's lieutenants consulted the roster of U.S. press bigwigs, invited suggestions from such publishers as Bernard Kilgore of the Wall Street Journal and John Cowles of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune. Whitney was politely turned down by several nominees, e.g., Executive Editor Lee Hills of John S. Knight's Detroit Free Press, and turned down several himself after close examination. A newcomer to newspapering, Whitney had never heard of Mexico's Bob White, but, as one Whitney aide explains, "nearly everyone we spoke to mentioned his name...
Jaguars & Joining. Known among Missouri newsmen as "a nice guy with a tremendous capacity for work," crewcut, wiry (6 ft. 1 in., 168 Ibs.) Bob White was born in Mexico, Mo., went to the local Missouri Military Academy, then on to Virginia's Washington and Lee University, where he played halfback on the football team. A sometime freelance writer and U.P. correspondent in Kansas City, he served on the wartime staffs of Generals MacArthur and Eichelberger, got a Bronze Star, wound up as a major stationed in the White House on War Department public relations duty...
Easy-money Democrats, led by Congressman Lee Metcalf of Montana, insisted on an amendment recognizing the Federal Reserve's "primary mission" of administering sound money, but demanded that the Fed "bring about needed future monetary expansion" by buying Government securities of varying maturities instead of, as it has been doing, lowering reserve requirements...
Anatomy of a Murder. Lee Remick and James Stewart are slickly professional in this adaptation of 1958's most physiological bestseller, but even they cannot compete with a cinema newcomer from Boston named Joseph N. Welch...
...seventeenth century Cambridge home, the Lee-Nichols House at 159 Brattle St., will be opened to the general public for the first time, this afternoon at 3:00 p.m. It will remain open until 5 p.m., and during these hours for the remainder of the months of July and August...