Word: owned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rubbed Noses. Both Editor Evjue and Rebel Parker saw eye to eye on one thing. They had no use for Wisconsin's 40-year-old Republican Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, an ex-Marine tailgunner who, in 1946, had defeated Evjue's good friend, Senator Robert M. La Follette...
To 400 editors of Wisconsin daily and weekly newspapers, McCarthy sent a blistering letter charging Evjue's paper with continually parroting the Daily Worker and asking whether it was not "the Red Mouthpiece for the Communist Party in Wisconsin." He cited Evjue's own 1941 accusation that Parker...
Last week they found a man to direct the job. Their choice: John Davenport, a member of FORTUNE'S board of editors since 1937, longtime friend of London Economist Editor Geoffrey Crowther. Lean, intense and articulate, new Editor Davenport, 45, is a Yaleman ('26), yachtsman (he sails his...
So far, the harried commission has made no decision. It will probably make none for many months, and any decision it does make is sure to rouse cries of anguish. If it gives color-telecast permission to CBS, the only outfit with a color system that works well at present...
CBS, on the other hand, has gathered behind it a head of political steam. Its color sets have toured the U.S. The brilliantly colored pictures have been seen with enthusiasm by thousands of influential citizens who say: "We've seen color television with our own eyes. It's...