Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pavement Patrols. On paper, the Messinas were ostensibly in business as antique dealers, diamond merchants, exporters, and one by one they took on British-sounding names-Raymond Maynard, Charles Maitland, etc. Each brother had three or four addresses. Frequently a girl who paid her earnings to one brother lived in a flat owned by another. As the boys became more polished, they got themselves measured for Savile Row suits, and liked to keep a wary eye on the pavement patrols of their girls by cruising Curzon Street and Shepherd Market in Rolls-Royces. By the 1950s, the police estimated that...
...than he began trying to put a new shine on the 103-year-old daily. As publisher he installed Richard H. Amberg, who boosted local coverage, gave big play to public-service projects. In the process, Amberg shuffled some job assignments, replaced few staffers who left the paper. These changes convinced the St. Louis unit of the American Newspaper Guild that the Newhouse management was going in for a wholesale head-lopping. Last February, deeply suspicious of Newhouse, 332 members stalked off their jobs...
...activities is directly related to the socio-economic status of parents." Thus, as Harvard gets more selective, the applicant from the depressed area gets passed over. Not only is the poor boy not likely to apply, King points out, but he is not likely to compete well "on paper" with his richer, better-fed rival. Education, like charity, begins in the home...
...occasional "politician" (in the worst sense of the word) whose egotism eventually finds its way into moral and political laxity, but there are over eighty College-wide undergraduate organizations, not counting the numerous House groups. How many students are there in these groups--organizers, producers, managers, entrepreneurs, paper-pushers, as well as political administrators--who never take the step toward irresponsibility? Mr. Levy's reasoning is true in some cases, to his regret and mine, but applying it as broadly as the article does is doing a disservice to the hundreds of students involved in some way or other with...
...about monopoly, were not anxious to gobble up the News and take sole ownership in a town they entered only four years ago. But buying the News made the kind of economic sense that Jim Knight likes to make: fusing the mechanical and business office operations of the two papers will give the ledgers a real lift. As for the editorial side, Jim Knight plans to let each paper keep its individual character, with the News continuing as a folksy, locally oriented, feature-conscious paper, while the Observer moves on a somewhat more serious regional orbit. Jim Knight says...