Word: texans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Bellows' morale was also running low this year after a series of disagreements with his Star boss, Joe L. Allbritton, 52. Texan Allbritton bought the falling Star in 1974 and it ran up losses of $30 million before edging toward the black this year. Allbritton hired Bellows in 1975 from the Los Angeles Times, where he was associate editor, and Bellows revitalized the Star staff, modernized the typography, and concocted such popular features as a daily front-page interview with a newsmaker and "The Ear," a madcap, much-quoted gossip column...
Bellows' dustups with Allbritton accelerated in May when the Texan installed Sacramento Bee General Executive James H. Smith as president. "He looks upon a paper as a money machine," says a former Bee colleague. Though the Star's editorial staff had already been sliced from 286 to 242 before Smith arrived, the new president this month ordered a 10% staff cut. Fed up, Bellows resigned...
...Tough Texan Scott Walker, Harvard's other "A" entry, fell victim to a tough draw, losing his second round match to eventual class winner Jay Lapidus (from Princeton, of course...
Jaworski, 71, had comfortably settled back into his lucrative Houston law practice after accumulating the evidence that did much to force Richard Nixon's resignation. When O'Neill and fellow Texan Wright called to try to persuade him, Jaworski says, "I wish I had been in Timbuktu." But, he adds, they "insisted." So, ignoring friends' warnings that he might "screw up" his Watergate reputation, he accepted-and agreed to serve without pay. Says Jaworski: "There is another challenge to another institution of Government, and it's up to someone to ferret out the facts...
...musing of Donald B. Yarbrough, 35, associate justice of the Texas Supreme Court. Added to Yarbrough's other troubles, which range from 17 civil suits to a forgery indictment to an 84-count disbarment petition, the recording may well herald an early end to one of the strangest Texan judicial careers since the heyday of Hanging Judge Roy Bean...