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...left to choice. Auxiliary engines were not to be used, and contestants would solemnly swear to take aboard no supplies during the crossing. The club, somewhat surprisingly, approved. Soon there were 150 inquiries from adventurous yachtsmen as far away as California, and hungry would-be sponsors clamored for a slice of the publicity pie. RCA offered radios, Autolite supplied batteries, and Plymouth Gin solicitously insisted on stocking each boat with a "survival kit"-one part gin, one part vermouth, and a guide to martini mixing...
Last month, when Newspaper Publisher Samuel Newhouse bought a 15% slice of the Denver Post, it seemed certain that that was only the beginning. In the process of acquiring 14 newspapers, Newhouse has never been content with less than full possession, and before leaving Denver he hinted broadly that he planned eventually to own 100% of the Post. But Newhouse reckoned without the power-and the fury-of a woman...
...years at the game, Publisher Samuel I. Newhouse has never exhausted either the will or the cash to buy newspapers. Fortnight ago, he added to his 14 papers by acquiring a healthy $3,600,000 slice of the Denver Post (TIME, June 20). Last week, still hot after bargains, Newhouse made a quick trip to Massachusetts, came home with a $4,000,000 piece of Springfield's three jointly held newspapers...
...Maria Velasco Ibarra, 67, was the only one of Ecuador's four candidates who correctly sensed the sharply heightened appeal of learning, land, and a thicker slice of the national economy in an agricultural nation where nearly half of the people are illiterate and the annual per capita income is $172. The Sorbonne-educated professor of government, ascetically lean and given to wearing natty waistcoats, called to him "all the multi tudes who dream of a new life with jus tice and real democratic equality, without privileged parties." He recalled the roads and schools that he lavished...
...lisher of the Jersey Journal (circ. 93,998), also oversees Newhouse papers in Birmingham and Huntsville, Ala. and in Portland, Ore., Newhouse says of his Post deal: "Denver makes a nice stop on the way from Alabama to Portland." Be that as it may, Sam Newhouse picked up a slice of a famed newspaper...