Word: m
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the two competing newspapers in Dayton, Ohio, offered to sell out to Publisher James M. Cox last summer, he was "a bit shocked." Ohio's spry, old ex-governor and Democratic presidential candidate (1920) doesn't "like newspaper monopolies." But a careful look at the books changed his mind. His own evening paper, the Dayton Daily News (circ. 96,000), was financially sound. The rival morning Journal (circ. 41,000) and evening Herald (circ. 66,000), both published by ex-Marine Colonel Lewis B. Rock, were...
...hope this brings in some cigars," Dr. Schmidt cracked. "I'm down to my last thousand." As one of the nation's leading urologists and one of its most effective crusaders against venereal diseases, Dr. Schmidt would get both his cigars and the unstinted praises of his associates...
...wasn't his old self off the tees, and in the third day's round a gasp of disbelief went up from his gallery when he took four putts on the 15th green. Hogan did not blame the climate. He said merely, "Hell, I'm just not playing golf." In the final round, Ben finally found his touch with a one-under-par 70, but by then it was too late...
...concentrated on character-building-and wasn't very good at that either. "I've got a three-year-old son who sucks his thumb," Jimmy once said. "I've been trying to mold him out of that habit, but the only result is that I'm beginning to suck my own thumb...
...thought of Chicago's climate bothered him, for one thing: "I'm afraid the wind would make me nervous." He was even more worried about Chicago's hospitality. Explained an intimate friend: "The maestro . . . fears he may be unwelcome because he was appointed first musician of the Reich by Hitler, although he has [since] been cleared by the denazification courts . . ." But Furtwangler was told there was "no need to worry." In Vienna, the gaunt, 62-year-old conductor announced the deal himself: he would conduct for eight weeks at a sum neither he nor Chicago would reveal...