Word: marcellus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Levand, who had learned the newspaper business under Publishers Frederick Bonfils and Harry Tammen in the carnival atmosphere (1895-1933) of the Denver Post. The Levands jazzed up the Beacon's copy, said that they would run the Eagle off the streets. The Eagle, under Publisher Marcellus Murdock, fought back with talons rather than talent, screaming: "Since the Levands came here ... a new word has come into use in Wichita's life. That word is chisel...
...threatening to publish photographs of solid citizens surprised by Beacon photographers in compromising situations. The Eagle wrote balefully of "the threat of Levand influence," went out of its way to talk about "Max Levand of the Wichita Beacon, who owes the Government nearly $10,000 in taxes." When Marcellus Murdock's daughter went East and married a Jew, the Eagle said nothing, but the Beacon told about it in all too enthusiastic detail. When a girl staffer at the Beacon shot herself, the Eagle tried to associate a Levand with the case. A rumor that a Murdock relative...
Theologian J. Marcellus Kik recently wrote a parody on Tillich and Bultmann entitled "The King's Existential Garments"-with apologies to Hans Christian Andersen...
...have the old men in TIME, Oct. 20. Now let us have some old women. Begin with me. My mother was 94 when she died. My grandfather was 94. His name was Cassius Marcellus Clay* and was Minister to Russia under Abraham Lincoln. I am 87 and have just published a book called From My Journal...
...MARCELLUS NESBITT Beaver...