Word: owners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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William Theodore Evjue, the firebrand, muckraking owner and editor of the successful (circ. 40,181) Capital Times of Madison, Wis., likes tough, independent reporters who are not afraid to talk back to him. Reporter Cedric Parker, 42, had measured up to the boss's standard almost too well. In his 21 years on Evjue's staff, Parker had earned a reputation as a crack reporter by such stunts as storming into tough gambling joints one jump ahead of raiding policemen. Reckless, hard-drinking Reporter Parker had also earned a left-wing reputation as a local C.I.O. official...
...North Philadelphia railroad sta tion a few weeks ago, an autograph-hunting youngster asked George Preston Marshall : "Are you the coach?" Owner Marshall, whose Washington Redskins (once top-rankers in the National Professional Foot ball League) had just taken a 49-10-14 drubbing from the Philadelphia Eagles, brushed the kid .off with two cryptic words: "Not today." It was quite an admission for the volatile, self-styled genius who sometimes hired coaches to run his team, supercoaches to run the coaches-and then ran the whole thing himself...
Last week at half time of the Pittsburgh Steelers game, Owner Marshall was barred from the Redskins' dressing room in Washington's Griffith Stadium. The coach, Vice Admiral John E. Whelchel, U.S.N. (ret.), was giving his pros a pep talk, and it was for the ears of football players only. "Billick" Whelchel broke a big piece of news: it was his last game with the Redskins. He shook hands all around, then made his speech: "Now go out there and win that game for me." The Redskins did in a shifting, fast-moving finale that included passes...
...least the car owner can take some solace in the unofficial news that New Haven police are planning to waive almost any parking violation offenses in town tonight and tomorrow night. The gendarmes just can't compete with the crowd...
George H. O'Brien, owner of the Provision, reported that a five foot eight inch man, about 35 years of age, entered his store shortly before 7 p.m. and ordered a bottle of rum and some Coca-Cola. James F. Mahoney, a clerk, went to a rear room for the Coca-Cola and upon emerging was stopped at the door by the customer, who partially displayed a silver steel revolver...