Word: partner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some observers think the Bulletin's new lease on life was drawn by a Philadelphia lawyer. As general manager, suave Richard Slocum, former law partner of Owen J. Roberts, is the McLeans' right-hand man, gets along famously with their staffers as well. His sights are already set on the first objective in the Bulletin's second century: finding newsprint for the new Sunday edition (circ. 650,000 after only nine weeks' existence) to compete with Walter Annenberg's Sunday Inquirer...
...This led to more concrete suggestions, if not more outright clarification. Present were such prominent folk as: Commission Chairman Milton Eisenhower, president of Kansas State College of Agriculture and Applied Science and a younger, scholarly edition of General Ike; Assistant Secretary of State William Benton and his oldtime advertising partner, Chester Bowles; Donald M. Nelson (now of Hollywood), and Texas' witty historian Frank Dobie...
...Baer, ex-heavyweight-champ-turned-comedian, visited Indianapolis in his camel's hair coat, dropped in on an old sparring-partner-turned-evangelist, was shortly lifting his voice to lead 5,000 people at Cadle Tabernacle through Rock of Ages and There Is No Night There. Explained Max: "There's a little bit of good...
...said the agreement was dead. Then Jersey Standard and its, partner in Middle Eastern ventures, Socony, dealt themselves a new hand...
Bluff, brusque, beefy Gilbert rated his own comedy highly, but had as little respect for Partner Arthur Sullivan's desire to write "solemn" music as he had for the poetical esthetes he pilloried in Patience. In fact, satirical Gilbert and solemn Sullivan collaborated best when they kept apart, exchanging their respective words and music chiefly by mail. But Sullivan, sentiment, and a first-rate business sense all combined to keep Gilbert's satirical aptitude in bounds...