Word: sagan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after a two-year rise from copyboy to overnight editor of Chicago's hardboiled, fast-moving City News Bureau,* brash, blond Bruce Sagan (rhymes with pagan) paid $2,500 for a withered weekly called the Hyde Park Herald. Breathing life into the body and new fire into the Southside community. Publisher Sagant mounted a hard-hitting campaign for slum clearance, coupled picture spreads of slum dwellings (including owners' names) with authoritative how-to-do-it articles on redevelopment. Outcome: Hyde Park qualified for federal aid as the Midwest's first and biggest project of this type approved...
...Palace. Training his slingshot on the Democratic machine, Wonderboy Sagan at 26 helped elect Independent State Representative Abner Mikva, who was voted "outstanding freshman" of 1957 by the Illinois legislature. Taking on the Chicago Theological Seminary, the Herald last year leaped into the fight that saved Architect Frank Lloyd Wright's famed Robie House from demolition to make way for a dormitory. As circulation hit 8,500-350% more than the old Herald-Publisher Sagan was able to say: "The paper is worth ten times what we paid...
Last week New Jersey-born Bruce Sagan, now a ripe 29, broadened his reach by putting up more than $1,000,000 to buy the 52-year-old Economist, a bustling biweekly whose Southtown and Southeast editions blanket 22% of metropolitan Chicago-including the Lake Calumet area, where Chicago is building a vast new industrial complex on the St. Lawrence Seaway. The ad-fat Economist (circ. 152,000), which has more, than 100 staffers, also has a battling tradition. Example: crying "land steal," it has vociferously fought grandiose plans for a convention palace on the lake front, as decreed long...
...kind of impassioned prattle that made Franchise Sagan a sensation at 18 and a bestselling bore at 22 continues to infect young girl writers. Two current examples of vernal volubility, each the work of a 14-year...
...repulsive tale, but somehow repulsively alluring, though not in the same way the book was. Sagan's sensuous sentences suggested the presence of horror by wreathing softly about it; the camera pries into its morbid subject like a coroner. And the meanings that the novelist saw through her looking glass, darkly, Director Otto Preminger sees face to face in staring Mediterranean sunlight. He loses the French style but gains some common substance...