Word: proprietor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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International Lawn Tennis Federation president Allam Heyman and World Championship Tennis proprietor Lamar Hunt came to an agreement yesterday, paving the way for the world's top players to compete in the major championships as well as the Davis...
...into the cortege of black limousines. Then a carload of Gallo's associates came alongside and ordered Willwerth off the road. He made it to the cemetery anyway. Visiting the scene of the Gallo killing, Umbertos Clam House, he was warned in gruff terms by the hefty proprietor to avoid any use of his name. "Then," says Willwerth, "he took my name for future reference...
...times. That's junk. It was 150 times. I been worked over for nothing until my hat sits on my head like it belongs on a midget." Someone in 1961 overheard him trying to shake down a Brooklyn restaurant owner for a share of the profits. The proprietor asked for time to think about it. "Sure," said Gallo, "take three months in the hospital...
Northcliffe's own papers stopped printing his contributions. He cabled threats to fire everybody. One editor was told to "stop walking down Fleet Street in a tall hat." The Times, which he bought to save it from bankruptcy in 1908, put guards on its doors-against the proprietor. After he came home again to London, Northcliffe's four phones to his papers were cut off. Yet a Daily Mail night editor received his last whispered message to the paper -Northcliffe had found a fifth phone and was calling from under his wife's boudoir table...
...Nini, proprietor of Nini's Corner, reacted strongly yesterday to Galbraith's charges. He said that Galbraith should "do some study, and not pick on the people...