Word: obst
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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D.N.S. was started a few months ago by two 23 year olds, David Obst, who has the title of general manager, and Michael Morrow, its only fulltime staff writer. Obst acknowledges that the service has a left-of-center tone, but he adds: "This is not an antiwar news service, but rather a pro-truth news service." The son of a Los Angeles advertising man, Obst marketed the Hersh story with chip-off-the-old-block hustle. He sat down with a copy of Literary Market Place, which carries the phone numbers of newspaper editors, and started making calls...
...David Obst of the Dispatch News Service, calling from Washington," he told about 50 editors in the U.S. and Canada. "I've got a story I think you'll be interested in." Most of the editors responded with remarks like "What's that agency again?" Obst persisted, asking $100 if the story ran. Some 35 newspapers (including the Chicago Sun-Times, the Milwaukee Journal and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch) printed...
Leverett can look forward to a strong team next year with five of eight men on the team returning Captain and Coach Grant Hammond, John Wurster and Tom Pringle are all seniors, but Tebin, Lanken, Keats, Obst and Jeff Dundon will swim for Leverett next year...
Leverett clinched the meet in the breaststroke. Sophomore Paul Lanken won it with a time of 31.7 and Junior Tony Obst finished second...
...medley relay, John Wurster, Grant Hammond, Tony Obst, and Tom Pringle swam a 1:53.5, beating Kirkland by nearly a body-length. Walter Keats, Tom Pringle, Jeff Dundon and anchor Richard Blumenthal did a 1:36.7--average splits of 24 plus--to win by over half the pool...