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Publisher Loeb's combative instincts have also resulted in some notable crusades by the Union Leader. In 1955, for example, when lawmakers opposed an increase of the state's share of pari-mutuel receipts, the paper printed the names of 42 legislators who were on a racetrack payroll. But Loeb himself derives his keenest joy from an editorial page that ranges acrimoniously from "gulliberals" to Detroit ("overgrown, overdecorated, over-expensive U.S. cars"). "Newspapers," he maintains, "should be run for fun. not profit." From the Manchester Union Leader Publisher Loeb gets both...
...play? Was it a flop? Was it a clinker? No, it was a super-disaster called Snowshoes and presented last week over CBS's Playhouse 90. There are these racetrack types down and out in Miami and they get a race horse and then somebody thinks of Bridey Murphy and a hypnotist makes the horse think he's Man o' War, or does he? and then . . . Well, that was the way it went. Trendex gave Snowshoes a high rating, which ought to make Playhouse 90, its sponsors and its network worry: Will many of those millions ever...
...taking them with him wherever he can. He has buttressed the flimsy walls of present success with long-range business enterprises-five music companies, an independent film outfit, a 2% chunk of the enormous Sands gambling hotel in Las Vegas, and eleven shares "of the Atlantic City Racetrack. In movies, he picks his parts as carefully as he has always picked songs that suit both his talent and his taste. He works as fiercely as he plays...
Damon Jr. is not much of a writer, and his resentment against his father is still so intense that at times his book is painful. But his unique story shows the sad and bitter side of a man who, to millions, has only meant a racetrack kind of gaiety, a Broadway kind of sentimentality...
...from coast to coast, and are as varied as a pirate's treasure (see map). No sooner has he bought a ship line than he wants a railroad, no sooner a candy company than he gets a grocery. Murchison juggles multimillion-dollar deals with the unconcern of a racetrack teller counting $2 bills. In Texas, where such a man is admiringly known as a "wheeler-dealer," Clint Murchison is the biggest wheeler-dealer of them all. Says Sid Richardson: "Murchison is the kind of man that tells you, 'Here, hold this horse while I run and catch another...