Word: normans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Steve and Norman Rosenblatt bought Salt Lake City's suburban weekly Holladay Neighbor for $15,000 last year, the sum of their newspaper experience was Norman's three years on the Yale Daily News. Friends argued that their purchase was questionable for other reasons. Not only were they leaving good paying jobs with a prosperous mining-and construction-equipment business, but they were buying a paper that was losing money and readers as a result of its steady diet of back-fence gossip and trivia...
...Brothers Rosenblatt-Steve, 30, and Norman, 33-were unconvinced. They had read in TIME. (Nov. 22, 1963) that giveaway weeklies were thriving as never before, were convinced that they too could turn a profit by putting out a good paper. They began by giving the paper a new name, the Rocky Mountain Review, and a new purpose. No more "whispering," they told readers on April 2, 1964. From then on, the paper would switch from a giveaway to a "voluntary" 10? per copy-and its news columns would "shout...
...could expose his junior brood to Baldwin, to Norman Mailer, to Paul Goodman and Ayn Rand--not because the Institute should attempt to convert its residents into radicals and reactionaries, but because a good politician understands his community, not only the majority that elects him, but also the minorities on the fringes, where political creativity often has its roots...
...Norman Thomas is no longer the radical on the street corner, because of the distinct progress with which he credits the United States or because of a new relationship he has found with the two-party system, he has remained an idealist of the first order. Severely critical of American action in South Vietnam, Thomas calls upon President Johnson to "say to the world: We've got to have peace." If the President would turn his displayed eloquence in this direction, according to Thomas, it would be tremendously effective. Once having rid the world of war, the nation could lead...
After eighty years in a "hostile environment," Norman Thomas knows better than most what's going on; "I will retire," he confides, "when I can no longer lift the Sunday Times...