Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...looking for ways to prevent a crowning indignity: the courtroom questioning by Parker's Negro attorney on the sexual attack of the 24-year-old white rape victim. Fired by beer, whisky and hot speeches during a two-hour meeting, the plotters eventually hit upon a scheme. By paper ballot, at least ten men were chosen to lynch Parker. They...
Among the score of groups that have assayed the Anaconda papers, the most likely buyer is the Midwest's loosely knit, ten-paper Lee syndicate.† Founded by A. (for Alfred) W. Lee in 1890, the chain is now handled by his nephew, Lee Loomis, 74, who lives in Mason City, Iowa, presides over a tidy little empire that is generally pro-Republican, but allows its members to play the news as staidly or sensationally as they like. The reported bid of the Lee papers for the copper chain: some...
...Diego Union (circ. 88,646), Editor Herbert G. Klein, 41, last week cleared his desk for a leave of "indefinite" duration. Able, easy-eyed Herb Klein, a World War II Navy officer who rose out of the city room to the top editorial post on the pivotal paper of the 15-paper Copley Press, had received a summons from a friend in Washington: Richard Nixon. Next week Editor Klein will fly to Washington for his new job as special assistant to the Vice President...
Calif. Post-Advocate-also a Copley paper-and Nixon was running his first political race. Two years later Congressman Nixon borrowed Klein as an unpaid publicist in the 1948 campaign, borrowed him again in 1952 (again as publicist), 1956 (assistant press secretary) and 1958 (press secretary). During each Nixon stint Klein earned increasing respect from political reporters as a pressman's press secretary...
Gnoli was strictly raised for his profession by his father, an art expert and critic. At twelve, the boy was required not only to identify art styles at a glance, but also to imitate them precisely on paper. "Father smoked so much at my drawing sessions," he recalls, "that by the end of the day I couldn't see him across the studio. He was like Zeus on a dais; you had to cut through clouds...