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...Yawkey bought Clark Grifith's son-in-law. Name the player and dollar amount...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sports Cube World Series Time Quiz | 10/12/1979 | See Source »

There is something bright and burning about this Republican camera nut and son-in-law of the late Dirksen. It is Baker's season. In six months he has come up ten to twelve points in the opinion polls. In the Kentucky hills and along the clear streams of Utah, when they take time to think about politics, there are unusual numbers of queries now about Howard Baker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Proud of Being a Politician | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

...resigned two weeks ago. The White House is eager to learn whom Yazdi will name as a replacement for the Shah's longtime, high-living ambassador to Washington, Ardeshir Zahedi. In Zahedi's absence, the spokesman for the Iranian embassy has been Yazdi's articulate son-in-law, Shahriar Rouhani, 29, who temporarily put aside his doctoral studies in physics at Yale to serve as a diplomat-without-portfolio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Odyssey of Ibrahim Yazdi | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

...very much an Atlanticist and who was even accused at times of being slavishly indulgent to U.S. interests. Gone too will be the close relationship with David Owen, Labour's outgoing Foreign Secretary, and his friend the British Ambassador to Washington, Peter Jay, who as Callaghan's son-in-law can expect his replacement to be one of the first acts of the Conservative government...

Author: By Gordon Marsden, | Title: Britain Under the 'Iron Lady' | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

...journalists and their employers respond to their increasing power and prestige? Halberstam's book will disappoint those expecting to hear the worst. The Post, for instance, was handed down from Eugene Meyer to his brilliant son-in-law Philip Graham. Eventually Graham used Meyer's money to buy out the competition and create a morning monopoly in Washington. According to conventional wisdom, that is the time when publishers kick out the reporters and make room for the advertisers. Graham did nothing of the sort; he used his newfound security to take on better journalists and increase his paper's authority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Names That Make the News | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

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