Word: posts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jeweler prince, who bought the $1,000,000-$2,000,000, steel blue, 44½-carat purey from the estate of Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean, famed capital hostess whose first son was killed by an automobile, whose daughter died from an overdose of sleeping pills, whose husband, onetime Washington Post Owner Edward B. McLean, died in a mental institution. Some previous owners: King Louis XIV, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, English Banker Henry Thomas Hope, and Subaya, favorite of Turkish Sultan Abdul Hamid, who murdered...
...statewide poll to indicate trends, let its readers make their own forecasts. All four Los Angeles papers ran poll results, otherwise avoided getting out on a limb. As for the other New York newspapers, the most remarkable performance was a public display of neuro-journalism by the New York Post (see below). The usually hep New York Daily News pulled an Election-Night boner with the un-Newsworihy headline, HARRIMAN JUMPS AHEAD IN CITY VOTE, at the same hour that the competitive Mirror was proclaiming ROCKY WINS. The Herald Tribune's national political pundit, Joseph Alsop (TIME...
...Dealing afternoon New York Post (circ. 351,439) hemmed and hawed until five days before the election and then endorsed Democrat Averell Harriman for re-election as New York Governor. At that eleventh hour its minced-hearted editorial ("Whatever his failures and shortcomings . . . we favor Harriman's re-election") read as if a myopic makeup man had misplaced several paragraphs. Post readers thought all this rather strange, but it was only the beginning...
...very day after the Harriman endorsement, Post Publisher Dorothy Schiff in her "Dear Reader" column, wrote warmly of "ebullient" Nelson Rockefeller, pointedly inquired: "Are you sure that Averell Harriman is really the most independent, liberal gubernatorial candidate?" Then on the front page of the final edition, on the night before election, Post readers got a furious Schiff assault on Harriman: "Governor Harriman's recent snide insinuation that Nelson Rockefeller is pro-Arab and anti-Israel should not be condoned by any fair-minded person . . . If you agree with me, do not vote for Averell Harriman tomorrow...
...Purdue (5-1-1)-the Big Ten's most underrated team managed a 14-14 tie with Ohio State, after which Coach Jack Mollenkopf blew up when he could not find Ohio State's stormy Woody Hayes for the traditional post-game handshake. Exploded Mollenkopf: ''This is the first time in my twelve years in the Big Ten where a coach was too damned big or busy to come around and shake hands...