Word: owners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after the success of such Negro singers as Lou Rawls and Dionne Warwick, the authentic soul sound has come into its own in the white, teen-dominated pop market. "It satisfies a thirst for the idiomatic, the untrammeled, the pure," explains Atlantic's other vice president and co-owner, Jer ry Wexler, 50. "After all that farina and honey, the audience wants some cornbread and butter...
...while the Courier provides friendly intermediaries who can negotiate some of Alabama's political thickets, it occasionally effuses hopelessly naive goodwill. One New Englander, told that business dealings in the South are relaxed and informal, called a beauty shop owner to sell her an ad and initiated the following dialogue...
...reporter. (Exception: A team of reporters covering the first civil rights demonstration in Ft. Deposit, not far from Selma, were surrounded by white mobs twice; a county voting examiner smashed an ax handle through their car windshield; and five carloads of toughs followed them out of town.) A drugstore owner in Linden bought a copy of the paper from two reporters, remarking, "Course, I make up my own mind, but I've heard from people I respect--sheriffs and all--that this is a Communist newspaper...
...Hartford, Conn., last week, a Negro luncheonette owner threw out a Negro customer for getting fresh with a waitress-and the upshot was two days of violence. What began as a dispute between Negroes ended in damage to 14 shops, a few of which were white-owned; it also brought injuries to 14 of both races. Police in Erie, Pa., broke up a sidewalk crap game among Negro youths-and the result was two days of stonings and stickwork. Officials in Cincinnati, Tampa and Buffalo, where ghetto dwellers rampaged earlier this summer, nervously sought ways to avert fresh flare...
...week's end Columbia had lost yet another race, this time to Constellation, and Owner Dougan had replaced Cunningham with 39-year-old Bill Ficker, a former Star Class world champion. Intrepid appeared to have the defender's job virtually locked up-and attention at Newport switched to the Australian challengers. If the America's Cup were awarded for beauty, the sleek green-and-gold Dame Pattie would win easily. If it were awarded for brass, Skipper Jock Sturrock would be well in the lead. He left no doubt that he expects to win come September...