Word: proprietor
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...Sunday People (circ. 5,467,872) and the Daily Herald, a Labor Party voice. Although the Daily Herald's circulation is 1,418,119 it manages to lose about $2,000,000 a year. Last month Fleet Street's Canadian-born Press Lord Roy Thomson, 66, proprietor of 80 papers in seven countries, made an offer to Odhams' board, headed by Sir Christopher Chancellor, longtime (1944-59) general manager of Reuters Ltd., the British press service. Thomson's proposal: an equitable stock exchange that would in effect merge Odhams with his own newspaper properties in Britain...
Unpaid Bills. The founder and sole proprietor of what he liked to claim was the world's largest individually owned construction company, Hayes had contracted to build some $60 million in housing projects at U.S. military bases. Last spring, when some of his subcontractors began to complain about money owed them. Hayes called an abrupt halt to all the work on projects yet uncompleted (TIME, June 6). On the sites, virtually nothing has happened since. Not only are there unfinished houses, but huge piles of lumber and other building materials are being ruined by the winter weather...
...union with McCall Corp. will give the 37-year-old Saturday Review a hard-driving new proprietor: West Coast Industrialist (wood, matches, processed food) Norton Simon, 53, who began acquiring control of McCall Corp. in 1954. Simon has promised his new possession editorial independence-a promise that presumably extends to Editor Cousins' numerous extracurricular crusades, most notable of which is his co-chairmanship of SANE, a citizens' group dedicated to the final abolition of nuclear tests. But independence can be a relative thing. Only after Cousins & Co. have finally moved into McCall's spacious quarters...
When he is in the mood for Yank-baiting, no one does it with more enthusiasm than Yank-admiring Lord Beaverbrook, 81, Canadian-born proprietor of the London Daily Express (circ. 4,250,000) and three other British papers. Beaverbrook's intermittent brand of anti-Americanism rests on the suspicion that the U.S. is out to reduce Britain to satellite status, has manifested itself in everything from his opposition to a 1946 U.S. loan to Britain ("We have sold the Empire for a trifling sum") to wild editorial outcries at the Ford Motor Co.'s recent...
...Master tends to feel he's the proprietor of a sardine-packing establishment," when House size increases much beyond 400, according to John H, Finley, Jr, '25, Master of Eliot House, John M. Bullitt '43, Master of Quincy House, Placed the ideal number somewhere around 250. Noting that this also would be economically unfeasible, he suggested 350 as a reasonable objective...