Word: legman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...comics, the new strips like Peanuts should come as a welcome relief. Taking the comics, in their own way, as seriously as Europeans, some Americans have castigated the funnies for offering a distorted, often brutalized view of life. In Love & Death, a brilliant indictment of the medium, Folklorist Gershon Legman writes: "Children are not allowed to fantasy themselves as actually revolting against authority-as actually killing their fathers. A literature frankly offering such fantasies would be outlawed overnight. But in the identifications available in the comic strips-in the character of the Katzenjammer Kids, in the kewpie-doll character...
...double-times to every story and double-checks every source. But even before his time, C.N.B. had made impressive contributions, both apocryphal and real, to the encyclopedia of journalistic lore. In 1903, when a smoke-blackened man crawled out of a manhole before the eyes of a C.N.B. legman named Walter Howey (later editor of Chicago's Herald and Examiner), Howey commandeered a phone in a nearby bookie joint and short-circuited, so the story goes, every other public phone in the vicinity. After thus assuring himself an exclusive, Howey covered Chicago's Iroquois Theater fire, in which...
...make a man get religion -and that is what old Tim Denney does. Before anyone could say John Brown, he votes for civil rights, gets his dam, retires from politics, and is named Best Christian of the Year. Au thor Coffin, who once put in time as a legman for Drew Pearson, is obviously sincere in his fictionalized pamphleteering. Fortunately, the cause of civil rights does not desperately need his help...
...sounds like a dirge. First there was Financier Leopold Silberstein, who began building the company in 1951 with grandiose plans for its future. Then there was Corporate Raider Alfons Landa, who after a proxy battle forced out Silberstein in 1958. Landa brought with him a former publicity man and legman for Drew Pearson named David Karr, who deftly worked his way into the president's chair when Landa vacated it in 1959. Karr then moved himself up to chairman and brought in George A. Strichman from International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. to be president. Last week it was Karr...
...past four months, U.S. business has known no more indefatigable head-hunter than David Karr, 44, onetime legman for Drew Pearson and then a public-relations man before he maneuvered himself into the corporate big time as guiding spirit of New York's Fairbanks Whitney Corp. Last week, after interviewing more than 40 senior executives from every corner of the nation, Karr ended his talent quest. In as Fairbanks Whitney's new president and chief executive officer (at $115,000 a year) goes crew-cut George A. Strichman, 46, once director of manufacturing services for Raytheon Corp...