Word: proprietor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...successful bidder, and the World-Herald's new proprietor, is Peter Kiewit (pronounced key-wit), 62, a spare, taciturn man who has spent all his working life in the construction business. Until just a few weeks ago, Kiewit's interest in the Omaha paper was simply that of a subscriber. But when he read an article about New Yorker Sam Newhouse's interest in Omaha, Kiewit decided to try to keep the outsider out. He was well-equipped...
...virtually adless for years at a stretch, fought a losing lifelong battle against financial failure. In 1937, after Editor Saunders tried unsuccessfully to convert the Independent to a daily, the paper died of chronic malnutrition. Three years later, without a cause to fight or a crook to cuss, its proprietor followed it to the grave...
...this time, it was plain that the lid would not stay on much longer-if, indeed, it was still on at all. And it was natural that the White House might want the "official" version to break in the friendliest possible fashion. As it happened, Philip Graham, proprietor of Newsweek and the Washington Post, is a good Kennedy friend. Last week, just after Graham returned from a trip to Europe, his publications broke the story. It denied, on its own responsibility, that Kennedy and Durie Malcolm had ever been married...
...Lyndon's motorcade had barely pulled away from Beirut's Khalde International Airport when the Vice President was off and running. He jumped out of the car at a traffic circle, strode through ankle-deep sand to a burlap-shaded watermelon stand. There he conferred with the proprietor, Ibrahim Sawaan, 15, who grinned up at him from beneath a grubby red cap emblazoned "Champion Spark Plugs." Lyndon assured young Sawaan that the U.S. has "an abiding and unchanging interest in the independence and integrity of Lebanon," got an uncomprehending smile for his trouble. The Vice President winked...
...accent. Back in 1945, the most visible of Mamma Gabor's three girls had tossed a tantrum in Manhattan's El Morocco nightclub, wound up spitting in Owner John Perona's face, and was banned forevermore from the zebra-striped benches. Now, a year after the proprietor's death, Son Edwin Perona listened to the importuning of one of Zsa Zsa's beaux, agreed to relax the ban: "It's been a long time. She did some bad things in here, but a lot of people have done bad things in here...