Word: posting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Slipper & Smoking Jacket. Persons' office looks more like a den (a tiger skin, two mounted bonefish, his two-starred major general's flag) than a command post of Government. There he operates with a sort of slipper-and-smoking-jacket informality. He still makes his own telephone calls to Congressmen; no Senator is ever kept hanging on the wire by a secretary. He takes virtually every incoming call ("When I get to Arlington National Cemetery," he sighs, "I'll stop taking them"), even encourages the last little argument, sometimes past the point of productivity. To Persons...
...eager to show that he too was trying to make racial partnership work, Sir Roy named Jasper Savanhu as parliamentary secretary of the federal Minister of Home Affairs, the first black in all of Southern Africa to achieve so high a government post...
...Done. The two Canadians-George G. Dingman Jr., 34, whose father publishes the reputable Times-Journal (circ. 10,720) of St. Thomas, Ont., and a sometime salesman named Joseph Dyson-worked out of London, Ont. To milk the contests, they set up a nonexistent newspaper, rented a post-office box for a nonexistent bank. Then they solicited two of the several U.S. syndicates that peddle prize contests to newspapers and that insist on sending solutions, as a precaution, to banks (or some other unimpeachable agency). In due time the phony newspaper began receiving the puzzles-and the phony bank began...
...lord, a businessman only casually interested in the papers themselves. But Newhouse can argue that he cares so much for the autonomy of his papers that he generally leaves editorial matters completely in local hands. A registered Democrat, Newhouse even leaves political stands untouched; e.g., in Syracuse, his Republican Post-Standard scraps with his Democrat-leaning Herald-Journal. One notable exception to his hands-off policy is the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, where he replaced a dozen top editorial staffers, slashed non-editorial expenses and personnel, eventually reaped a bitter strike by the American Newspaper Guild (TIME, March 9), which...
...market for the finest ermine, sent its agents across Canada on the lookout for mink. Even men coveted the Gunther's label. Gunther's long operated the only men's fur department in Manhattan, offering coats made of every kind of fur, from buffalo, favored by post-Civil War tycoons, to collegiate raccoon. But sables for the ladies inspired the legends. On Black Friday of the 1929 crash, Gunther's delivered a $70,000 sable coat to a customer, needlessly worried about payment (the customer settled in 60 days). Later it sold a shopper two sable...