Word: outfit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hawked in most advertising columns is about the dreariest in the land. Walter Addiego, who churns out an ad column for Hearst's San Francisco Examiner, said recently: "Last week the Dymo company let me make an announcement that they were looking for a new domestic public relations outfit." Stunned and humbled by this scoop, Addiego added: "You can't be that lucky all the time." The headlines induce mostly mystification or slumber: BANKS TO INCREASE USE OF ADVERTISING (Chicago Tribune), PRSA, WRIGHT FIRM AT LOGGERHEADS (Joe Kaselow), WAYNE WELCH INC. WILL OPEN AGAIN (Denver's Rocky...
...outfit headed by Publisher William Loeb of the Manchester, N.H., Union Leader, a far-right supporter of Barry Goldwater, and Lawyer John C. Satterfield of Yazoo City, Miss., a former head of the American Bar Association and an avowed states' righter. Much of the committee's money comes from the publicly financed Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission...
Ingrained Skepticism. In November, Jedlicka scored a different kind of coup: S. & L. Supervisor Chris Stolfa of the Illinois Department of Financial Institutions resigned. Though he was not accused of having a hand in the S. & L. frauds, Stolfa was badly hurt by the revelation that one S. & L. outfit had celebrated the opening of new offices with the help of $5,746 of jollity purchased from a Stolfa-owned liquor store. In mid-January, Jedlicka reported that Chicago's Deputy Building Commissioner Robert Ewbank had signed loans totaling $800,000 with two of the questionable S. & L.s. Ewbank...
Serv-U is unusual in another sense as well. It is the one outfit in which so many of Baker's business associates are linked together. These include men like the glib Fred Black, under indictment for income tax evasion and, until he was fired last week, a top lobbyist paid by North American; Ernest Tucker, with whom Baker shares a Washington law office, and who has his finger in several Baker pies; Edward Levinson, the Las Vegas operator, and the mysterious Miamian, Benny Sigelbaum...
...hard tonight, since a victory will keep their chances for the Ivy basketball crown alive. Yale's attack is centered around Kaminsky, a 6-1 forward who is the second leading scorer in the League behind Princeton's Bill Bradley. But unlike Princeton, Yale is not a one-man outfit. Eli guards Denny Lynch and Bob Trupin are one of the classiest backcourt combinations in the League...