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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Knight, 62, is one of the most influential publishers in the U.S. A shrewd, cost-conscious businessman, he has long articulated a middle-of-the-road political philosophy which mirrors a broad cross section of business thinking; he calls it "intelligent conservatism." While his slick, tricked-up papers seem often to reflect the auditor more than the editor in Knight's nature, they are closely identified with their communities and powerful in local and national politics. (In Illinois politicians say that an endorsement by the Daily News is an automatic guarantee of 50,000 votes.) Thus, Knight...
Shuttling between his 8-ft. desk in the Daily News publisher's office, and the 10-ft.-by-10-ft. cubicle where he retires to write his "Editor's Notebook," Knight is in closer touch with reality than most publishers, and has often irritated his fellow businessmen. He backed Wendell Willkie, mistrusted Tom Dewey, shied away from Herbert Hoover in 1932 because he felt that Hoover "knew very little about the human equation...
...often a fighting word in the theater, can also have its savory delights. Two blue-ribbon samples: Mickey Rooney and the late George M. Cohan, Broadway's celebrated Jack-of-all-theatrics. Last week, serving up a double helping, NBC presented Rooney as Cohan in Mr. Broadway, a 90-minute biographical spectacular with all the trimmings...
...sped to the college, where he roused the students and announced that he would say Mass. The would-be demonstrators thought that he was blessing their cause, and when Mass was over, they listened eagerly as he rose to preach. Quietly the cardinal told them what he has often repeated all over Poland: "You dreamt that this would be your dawn of heroism, and, I tell you, it is indeed your dawn of heroism. You are not heroes on the newsstands for having caused incalculable bloodshed, but heroes in truth because you have, in modest obscurity, renounced a hero...
...Angeles Board of Education: "Boys and their parents are made to believe in the social necessity of a university education, even though we know that an IQ of no is necessary to succeed in college, and many of those who have it would be happier, and often earn more, in a trade or a technical...