Word: mergers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Nat ("Mr. Boxing") Fleischer, 84, fight historian and founder of Ring magazine; in Manhattan. The merger of the New York World and the Telegram in 1931 brought about both the end of Fleischer's employment as sports editor of the latter and the start of his full-time devotion to Ring. For half a century the magazine's ratings of contenders, plus Fleischer's encyclopedic Ring Record Book, built Mr. Boxing's reputation as one of the sport's leading authorities and most pugnacious defenders. "There are just as many thieves in boxing...
...consolidation of the Record American and Herald Traveler--both children of mergers themselves--has caused considerable confusion for the two papers' loyalists. Most are trying to figure out what exactly has happened to their old favorite. Until June 18, when the Traveler ceased publication, Boston had three distinct newspaper readerships. The Globe did, and still does, hold the allegiance of card-carrying liberals and people who like nothing better than the good dirt on their local alderman (not to mention their next door neighbor). The Traveler represented Old Boston--the conservative establishment and the middle class working families who enjoy...
...overrun with columnists, many formerly of Herald Traveler fame, and the two solid pages of comics challenge even the most adamant eight year old. The sports pages of either of the old papers were more sympathetic to Boston's own than The Globe, and this hasn't changed with merger. There's just more...
...that fight: Michael Webster, chairman of Watney's. The Truman shareholders got Joseph's Grand Metropolitan stock and have seen its market value rise by 160% in a year. Small wonder that Joseph claims "Watney's shareholders would be better off if there were a merger." Naturally, Watney's Webster denies that. He proudly points to Watney's size and prospects: sales last year of $780 million and a predicted rise of 27% in earnings this year, from enterprises that range from 6,000 pubs in Britain to the distilleries that make Gilbey...
...care situation was actually better under the Pusey Administration. After the non-merger merger, Harvard took away janitorial services (which generally come to about half the cost of the space) from the Radcliffe and Memorial Church Centers. And while Radcliffe allowed fund raisers for the centers to use the addresses of alumnae. Harvard denied them access to their records--which include those of all Radcliffe graduates since...