Word: star
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past five years a dozen Seattle businessmen, most of whom knew nothing about newspapering, had owned the Star. Last week they sold out (for a profitable $400,000) to a flashily rising press lord the Pacific Northwest was suddenly hearing about. In less than a month Sheldon F. (for Fred) Sackett, 44, had bought the Vancouver (Wash.) Sun, acquired a weekly (he rechristened it the Sun, too) across the Columbia River at Portland, Ore., and snatched, for a small down payment, a million-dollar Portland printing plant. He had served notice on Portland's venerable Oregonian and the Oregon...
...coast, where he began saving for his present big expansion, largely financed by Cleveland Newspaper Broker Smith Davis. Sackett decided that his chain would be "owned by the men who run it, run by the men who own it." The motto will appear on the masthead of the Seattle Star, and Sackett's employees will "eventually" hold (but may not bequeath) 49% of the stock. The new boss said airily that he was out to "restore the press to the people." Seattle would be satisfied if he would just restore the Star as a newspaper...
...According to a favorite Star story, the Scripps boys learned that a city editor's salary had been raised from $22.70 a week to $25, and sternly directed that "the central office hereafter shall review all increases in the higher brackets...
...Present. Now the U.S. would have to decide how it felt about her. Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Association nervously sniffed the wind before making up its mind whether to ask its old star back. The New York Sun's critic Irving Kolodin thought it should not. To him, it was all right for Flagstad to hire a hall where the public could buy tickets or stay away; it was something else for her to sing at the Met, where the public buys season tickets months in advance, and has to accept whatever singers the management offers. Added Kolodin...
Died. Stanley Grafton Mortimer, 56, socially prominent, internationally famed amateur racquets star, thrice winner of the coveted Tuxedo Gold Racquet, four times national champion, nine times national doubles champion (with Clarence C. Pell), recognized as one of the top six U.S. racquets players of all time; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...