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When Millionaire Contractor Matthew H. McCloskey sold his Philadelphia Daily News (circ. 192,401) to the Philadelphia Inquirer's Walter H. Annenberg last week, no one was more surprised than the News's publisher, David ("Tom") Stern III. Since taking over management of the ailing Democratic tabloid a year ago (TIME, Jan. 7), Philadelphia-born Tom Stern, 48, had cut its losses from $225,000 a month to $40,000 a month, and estimated that it would lose no more than $200,000 in 1958. "Given a reasonable amount of time, we would have had an independent...
Charles R. Cherington, professor of Government, was equally outspoken: "I'm delighted that he's out, but Rogers is worse. It means more of the police state." Robert G. McCloskey, also professor of Government, commented that he was afraid that Brownell's formal resignation did not mean he would lose his political influence, which, McCloskey said, "has been pernicious in the extreme...
Assistant Dean Harry H. Hoehler will be the first to continue the program in August speaking on the 1 and 2 followed by The Reverend Leonard G. Clough on August 5, 6, 7, and Professor Robert G. McCloskey on August 8 and 9. On August 12, 13, and 14 The Reverend Samuel H. Miller will speak; on August 15 and 16 Professor Dana M. Cotton; and on August 19, 20, and 21 Mr. Walter F. Smith...
Analyzing the importance of the once solid South, Brinser asserted that the position of the Southern Democrats "is not consistent with the liberal wing," which is itself "cracked by the breakdown of the urban vote." Robert G. McCloskey, associate professor of Government, felt the party does not need the Solid South, and should not pay "a very big price for it, as I think it did this year...
...already the wire-service reporters were pulling out their "gloom descended" leads for the scene around Stevenson head quarters, while in Chicago at 10:30 Stevenson Campaign Manager Jim Finnegan and Campaign Treasurer Matt McCloskey were on the telephones to their home state, Pennsylvania. "How bad did we get licked?" asked McCloskey on one phone. "So we're behind in Lackawanna and Allegheny, too, eh?" Finnegan muttered on another. Only a robust Democratic lead in the Pennsylvania senatorial race brightened Finnegan's wake. The 11 p.m. calculators had Ike leading in states worth 441 electoral votes, Stevenson...