Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...veterans meeting in Lynn or a Jewish organization meeting in Chelsea, Tom Lane will be there," a friend explained. "Three weeks ago he attended at least six affairs in Revere, Lynn and Chelsea-all on one Sunday. He just never lets up. He'll look in the paper, see that a wake is to be held or a group is meeting, and he'll say he'd better...
...only one metropolitan paper ever discovered this. The height of the general misinformation occurred in the usually conscientious and well-informed New York Times. Its post-game report under the by-line of Allison Danzig took his ignorance out on the Harvard swimmers. Danzig said they failed when actually no losing team has ever done so well...
...same year the Hasty Pudding Dramatic Association was formed, so that the producers could squeeze out enough capital for another road trip. This inno vation was described by Roger S. Hewlett '33 as "really only a character on paper to legitimize the theatricals and to avoid the government taxes." "1776", the next year's show, evidently profited from the merger as it embarked on one of the most ambitious Pudding tours ever. It played to audiences in Boston, Northampton, Cleveland, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, and Detroit...
...gain for him, and a bargain for working control of a thriving, big daily. Control of the Enquirer would be a coup for the Taft-owned Cincinnati Times-Star, which tried to buy it before, or for the Scripps-Howard Cincinnati Post. But the purchase, which would give either paper a total of 70% of the city's advertising and circulation, might draw frowns from Government trustbusters. At week's end there were plenty of other possible buyers. Stuart counted 15 inquiries, including one from a major paper in New York or Chicago. Gloomed Ratliff...
...Alexander ("Sox") Calder Jr., 39, stepped into his father's shoes as president of Union Bag & Paper Corp., biggest U.S. maker of paper bags (1955 sales: a record $123 million). The elder Calder, 70, stays on as chairman of the board. After graduating from Dartmouth and Harvard Business School, young Calder started as a sales trainee in 1940, was made a director in 1948 and executive vice president in 1952. Like his father, he is a champion golfer...