Word: proprietor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Danger of Winning. Even the Phillies' millionaire proprietor Bob Carpenter, who has spent $12,000,000 on promising players and once sacked a manager for losing a mere seven games, takes the benevolent view. "You can't match middleweights against heavyweights," said he resignedly. "Our pitching isn't too good, and we have no power. But Gene Mauch has been great about the whole thing. I certainly don't blame him for the poor season...
...gaudy new biweekly magazine called Show Business Illustrated. Its first issue was 156 pages thick, and it bore a family resemblance to a grown-up girlie magazine called Playboy. SBI is the latest publishing venture of Chicago Playboy Hugh M. Hefner, 35, who is also Playboy's proprietor...
After all, who started all the Berlin trouble anyway? he asked with the cool aplomb of a circus shell-game proprietor. Certainly not the Soviet Union, he answered himself. "A military hysteria is now being drummed up in the United States," he said. "Comrades, it must be said frankly that the Western powers are pushing the world to a dangerous divide, and the threat of an armed attack on socialist states cannot be excluded." Khrushchev hastily repeated his assurance that Russia means no harm in Berlin with its proposed East German peace treaty. "We do not intend to infringe upon...
Relentless Rights. But the South's impatient young Negroes disagreed. And in Atlanta last year, when J. Lowell Ware, a Negro proprietor of a printing plant, proposed to Negro college students in Atlanta that they start a paper with his facilities, the Inquirer was born. In as editor, after two trial issues, went Carl Holman, 42, professor of English at Atlanta's Negro Clark College...
...servicemen in Europe, it is the "Oversexed Weekly." To Major General Edwin A. Walker, late of the 24th Infantry Division stationed in West Germany, it is "immoral, unscrupulous, corrupt and destructive." To its proprietor, Marion Rospach, 36, a stocky, energetic divorcee with a tomboy bob, it is a paper of high moral tone because it refuses to cover sodomy cases or "trials involving indecent assaults on children." But the Overseas Weekly, an English-language tabloid published in Frankfurt, West Germany, balks at little else, takes particular delight in headlining the missteps of military brass. By last week, the Overseas Weekly...