Word: posts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hear No Evil. Iron-jawed Max Bishop, in his first ambassadorial post, sees Thailand taking the disastrous course of China in the early '40s, and regards every criticism of the Thai government as Communist inspired. While the Russians and the Chinese woo Southeast Asia with honeyed words, Bishop's inflexible, chip-on-the-shoulder attitude grates on the easygoing, polite Thais. In his rush to ingratiate himself with Pibul (who smilingly referred to him recently as "my ambassador"), Bishop has ignored or antagonized regular foreign-office channels...
...rammed a tree. But now, at Playwright Miller's rural retreat, joy was unbounded. Mama Miller hauled out her chicken and everybody dug into the wedding feast. In the big cities the headlines were beginning to roar the news, OUR MAN KISSED THE BRIDE, brayed the New York Post in a Page-One banner. "It's the happiest meal I've ever eaten!" bubbled Marilyn. She impulsively bussed Arthur Miller, who husked: "It couldn't be better. We are married, and now the world can go back to what it was doing." At week...
Boston's sickly, 125-year-old Post made news each morning last week simply by coming out. Though the Post itself printed not a line about its ordeal, no well-informed Bostonian would have been surprised to see the paper collapse or pass suddenly into new hands. The daily was in an almost comic mess−creditors swarming, funds attached, payroll delayed, newsprint delivered only for hard cash, and negotiations begun for a distress sale...
Eccentric, self-made Financial Juggler John Fox, 49, snapped up the paper four years ago, when it seemed that its fortunes could go no lower. An enthusiastic cub as publisher and columnist ("Washington Waters"), Fox shook up the paper into a livelier daily. But by last week. Post circulation had dropped from 306,000 to 267,000 and advertising had tumbled with it. Of the "bargain price" of a reported $3,300,000 that Fox paid for the paper, he still owes about...
That big debt was rumored to be putting the pressure on Fox to sell out. But an avalanche of smaller debts was making it hard for him to hold the paper long enough to sell it. Six weeks ago, the City of Boston threatened to seize the Post's real estate if Fox did not pay up back taxes by mid-August. A fortnight ago, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service tied up the paper's bank account with a claim for $221,116 in unpaid withholding taxes from employees. Other creditors slapped other liens on the paper...