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...have both morning & afternoon editions, enforce "combination" advertising rates for both. If a recent court decision finding such enforced rates a violation of antitrust laws (TIME, June 9) is sustained by the U.S. Supreme Court, the Post may do better. In any case, its 125 staffers are hoping that Proprietor Fox, who has breathed life into many another ailing corporation, can do the same with the Post...
...that was a long time ago. Many people have forgotten, if they ever knew, what Mike's earlier career was like. And his friends no longer care. He is now the successful proprietor and chief stockholder in one of the most famous restaurants in the U.S. It is called, with aristocratic simplicity, Romanoff's, and for any person of consequence in Hollywood not to eat there regularly would be as unthinkable as it would be for Mike, now one of the town's first citizens, to be seen having lunch at a Beverly Hills drive...
...were a hereditary and self-perpetuating priesthood heard shocking news: the paper's control had been bought by Lord Northcliffe,* first lord of Britain's yellow press. "Ye Black Friars," as Northcliffe called them, feared the worst, and it soon came. The Times, said the new chief proprietor, might be what the "monks" called an institution, but it was not a newspaper...
...Chickens in Every Garage") did as much as anything to defeat Herbert Hoover in 1932. After Repeal, which Kirby did as much as any man to bring about, he showed Mr. Dry being lugged off to the graveyard, mourned by a rumrunner, a bootlegger, a racketeer and a speakeasy proprietor. "I was almost sorry to see him go," said Kirby. "I was almost getting fond...
...inhabited by characters who bear a striking resemblance to the types that populate the never-never land of moviedom. On hand are a sultry nightclub singer (Jane Russell), an intrepid adventurer (Robert Mitchum), and an American cop (William Bendix) who is rubbed out while running down the sinister proprietor (Brad Dexter) of the Quick...