Word: sun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sakharov spent her 63rd birthday surrounded by three grandchildren at Disney World in Florida, mesmerized by the fantasies conjured up in the Magic Kingdom. For the past six months, Yelena Bonner has been nurtured by her family and awed by the wonders of the U.S. She has soaked up sun in the Virgin Islands, seen Cats on Broadway and stayed up all night with her 85-year-old mother Ruth, leafing through the pages of an old family photo album. Nonetheless, says Alexei Semyonov, a son from her previous marriage, "she never really could relax. Her future in the Soviet...
...learned that they were working on their last edition. Its banner headline: SO LONG, BALTIMORE. Thus the News American, which liked to boast that it published the Declaration of Independence, was unable to report a story on Wednesday: its rival, A.S. Abell Co., owner of the Baltimore Sun, would be sold for $600 million to the Los Angeles-based Times Mirror...
...That the Sun fetched such a hefty price just after its main competitor folded was coincidental. Times Mirror Chairman Robert Erburu noted that his acquisition of the Abell properties, which include the morning Sun (circ. 205,000) and the Evening Sun (circ. 152,000), as well as two television stations and two magazines, had been in the works since April. Said he: "We saw a good opportunity and went...
...contrast, the Sun has flourished by establishing a reputation for the sort of reporting on national politics and foreign affairs that is usually matched only by much larger papers. During the Mexican War, the Sun used a string of riders to bring the latest dispatches to Baltimore on horseback, scooping its competitors and even the White House. In 1925 the Sun assigned H.L. Mencken to write his famous series of articles on the historic Tennessee "monkey trial" of John Scopes, who stood accused of teaching evolution in public classrooms. Under the leadership of Reg Murphy, who has been publisher since...
Times Mirror, which had 1985 profits of $237 million on revenues of $2.96 billion, has been on a buying spree. Two days before the Sun deal, the company said that it was buying the National Journal (circ. 5,100), a prestigious Washington weekly. Once known mainly for its flagship paper, the Los Angeles Times, Times Mirror now draws about 40% of its revenues from its East Coast operations. One star performer: Newsday (circ. 582,388), a fast-growing Long Island daily that is ambitiously expanding its distribution in New York City...