Word: star
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week an old friend dropped into the office of handsome, courtly Samuel Hay Kauffmann to congratulate him. At 50, Kauffmann had been elected president of the Washington Evening Star-the capital's oldest, richest and most conservative newspaper. Said the friend: "I remember the first time I saw you. You were sitting on the tailgate of a Star truck." Sam Kauffmann, grandson and namesake of the Star's first president, had started at the bottom 28 years ago to learn the business side of the business...
...years, the Star has been the two-family business of the Kauffmann and Noyes families. The recent deaths of 85-year-old Frank Noyes (TIME, Dec. 13) and 75-year-old Fleming Newbold, his brother-in-law, less than two months apart, marked the end of the old regime on the Star. Last week Kauffmann, four other new officers and two new directors* ushered in the new regime. Six of the seven were named Kauffmann or Noyes; all were descendants of the first Samuel Hay Kauffmann or the first Crosby Stuart Noyes, who took over the Star...
...uncomfortable feeling that there was nobody really underneath me until you got to the copy boys." After the war, Heir-Apparent Kauffmann started replacing the oldtimers with younger, more vigorous department heads. By last week, they were a smooth team. With a clinking cash register (last year the Star was seventh in the U.S. in ad volume), President Kauffmann had no intention of interfering with able Editor Benjamin M. McKelway, 53, who was re-elected last week. And Ben McKelway had no intention of changing the Star's editorial formula of printing local news in great detail and dodging...
...Felton, Jaakko Mikkola's former star weight chucker, came through to win the National AAU 35 pound weight throwing event, as predicted, in New York Saturday night. He narrowly beat out two collegians and two Olympians with a throw of 57 feet, 11 3/4 inches. Bob Bennett of Rhode Island, last year's winner and number one weight thrower in the Olympics, failed to place...
Bramhall and Pennsylvania star Heb Lyon won the individual honors with a total of 18 points apiece...