Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like newspaper monopolies." But a careful look at the books changed his mind. His own evening paper, the Dayton Daily News (circ. 96,000), was financially sound. The rival morning Journal (circ. 41,000) and evening Herald (circ. 66,000), both published by ex-Marine Colonel Lewis B. Rock, were...
Newsprint costs and wages were too high for Rock, who still owed about $1,000,000 on the purchase of the papers in 1935. Though monopoly was bad for the press, Cox and Rock decided heavy debts were worse. "If a press is to be independent," said Cox, "it has to be financially stable." Last week, for an undisclosed price, Cox bought the Republican Journal and the independent Herald, and merged them into one morning paper (the Journal Herald). That left the evening field to his New Dealing News, and made Dayton (pop. 300,000), Ohio's 6th largest...
...Saturday Evening Post articles and public speeches (his 1942 commencement address at the University of Dayton* was read into the Congressional Record). During World War I he won the middleweight boxing title at Great Lakes Naval Training Station, later played and coached pro football with five clubs (Decatur, Ill., Rock Island, Ill., Milwaukee, Detroit and Providence) before going to Washington University...
...news on Manhattan's art-marketing 57th Street last week was a single picture. It had taken three years of planning and three more years of painting. Peter Blume's 6-ft.-wide canvas, which he called The Rock, was a complex allegory of building and decay, done with photographic, Technicolored precision...
What are the ideas in The Rock? Blume believes he has "never made a virtue of obscurity, but there's always more than one level of interpretation to a thing. For instance the rock symbol is bound to be enigmatic. Biblically it's the deity, the source. This rock started out spherical, egg-shaped. Then in the process of working it out I made a fission, a break in it. There's a lot of destruction going on all through the picture-the phosphorescence of decay-but I think the emphasis is on construction. Compositionally the figures...