Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expected the game to be even close, but the University of Pennsylvania's null Palestra was sold out long before the University of Kansas basketball team showed up last week for what promised to be a light workout with St. Joseph's College. For Philadelphia fans it was enough that they would have a chance to see Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain in action. The Negro star, all 7 ft. 2 in. of him, is their boy. This was their first chance, since he left Philadelphia's Overbrook High three years ago to see what The Stilt might...
When Millionaire Contractor Matthew H. McCloskey sold his Philadelphia Daily News (circ. 192,401) to the Philadelphia Inquirer's Walter H. Annenberg last week, no one was more surprised than the News's publisher, David ("Tom") Stern III. Since taking over management of the ailing Democratic tabloid a year ago (TIME, Jan. 7), Philadelphia-born Tom Stern, 48, had cut its losses from $225,000 a month to $40,000 a month, and estimated that it would lose no more than $200,000 in 1958. "Given a reasonable amount of time, we would have had an independent...
Also puzzled were Philadelphia newsmen. Why did Walter Annenberg, whose staunchly Republican morning Inquirer has often feuded with McCloskey in the past, want the Democratic morning News (long known to Philadelphians as "The Dirty News")? Why had the Democratic Party's longtime National Treasurer Matt McCloskey capitulated? Though neither the civic-minded Inquirer (circ. 609,350) nor Robert McLean's quietly thorough afternoon Bulletin (circ. 718,007) paid more than cursory attention to the sale, the answers seemed clear enough. Hard-headed Contractor McCloskey, who had pumped some $5,000,000 into the News in his three years...
...this holiday season, the musical voice of Christmas carries to vacationers paddling beneath the surface of Miami pools (via underwater loudspeakers), to women in slenderizing salons, to celebrators in non-slenderizing saloons. In Philadelphia, worshipers can drop by the Arch Street Methodist Church and adjust a selector to the hymn of their choice. From the highest building in Salt Lake City, Christmas carols boom across the Salt Lake Valley. "I don't want to sound like Scrooge," complained an irate woman, "but damn it, I don't want to go without sleep until December 26th, either...
...facilities only twice since 1947. The I.C. says it needs a 55% fare boost just to get a 2.1% return. Its estimated $955,000 loss on the service this year will still be the lowest of any Chicago commuter line; Rock Island alone will drop $1,500,000. In Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania rings up a yearly $4,000,000 commuter deficit, which a requested 15% fare boost would slash by only...