Word: sam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Manhattan's bustling Sam Newhouse seldom stops running on his constant tours of his chain of ten newspapers.* Last week, Publisher Newhouse stopped long enough in Hoboken to buy the sickly Jersey Observer and merge it with his Journal in adjoining Jersey City. The Observer, which cost him a little more than $1,000,000, will give his Journal a combined circulation of almost 100,000 and a virtual evening-paper monopoly in teeming (pop. 646,000), industrial Hudson County...
People in Florida's Lake County were still sore about those two colored boys, Sam Shepherd and his buddy Walter Irvin. Two years ago, a 17-year-old white housewife swore that they and two other Negroes had kidnaped her and raped her in the back seat of their Mercury. A Lake County jury at Tavares had convicted them, and they were sentenced to the electric chair. But lawyers hired by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. This spring the Supreme Court had reversed the Lake County court and ordered...
...Tommy Bolt, of Durham, N.C., the North and South Open Golf tournament; at neighboring Pinehurst. Bolt, an unheralded pro, upheld U.S. golf prestige over Britain's visiting Ryder Cup team after all but one of the U.S. team members withdrew. Most notable of the defeated: Defending Champion Sam Snead, U.S. Ryder Cup captain, who quit after a second-round...
Like the imperial Caesars, Producer Sam (King Solomon's Mines) Zimbalist and Director Mervyn (Anthony Adverse) LeRoy rely on these circuses to keep their audience diverted from sterner matters. For all the majesty of the theme and magnificence of the trimmings, the story of Quo Vadis, based on Henryk Sienkiewicz' 1895 novel, never rises much above the level of a good melodrama...
...Crimson squad this year has plenty of weight, but still needs more speed. Its biggest asset is a heavy backfield with stars Dick Salisbury from Cambridge. England, Pierre Le Landais from France. Gordon Hutchinson from Scotland, John Cotter, and Sam Adams and Sam Butler, who are both old varsity football players. Should all these men be able to make the Yale trip, the squad stands a good chance of victory against the Elis...