Word: twins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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YOUR INTERESTING ARTICLE ABOUT PUBLISHER GORDON GRAY [TIME, SEPT. 12] CONTAINS AN ERROR WHICH I REGRET. WHEN THE TWIN CITY SENTINEL CALLED CIGARETTES "COFFIN TACKS," I OBJECTED TO WHAT SEEMED TO ME TO BE A POOR CHOICE OF A HEADLINE, BUT AT NO TIME DID I SUGGEST THAT THE MANAGING EDITOR BE FIRED...
...publisher of both the morning Winston-Salem (N.C.) Journal (circ. 49,048) and the afternoon Twin City Sentinel (circ. 33,205), Secretary of the Army Gordon Gray has a newspaper monopoly-and it worries him. Back in 1937 when he was 29 and a millionaire tobacco heir, Gray and a syndicate of big businessmen wanted to start a newspaper to compete with the Journal and Sentinel monopoly. He ended up buying the two papers for more than $1,000,000 when the owner threw in the towel. Gray still wishes Winston-Salem (pop. 90,000) could afford two independent papers...
Longer than Empire. The man of this faith was born a Roman Catholic in the shadow of Cologne's magnificent twin-spired cathedral. His father, a minor bureaucrat, wanted him to be a bank clerk, but young Konrad looked with awe upon the high Beamten (officials) who strode about Cologne exuding importance. He decided to get a university education so that he could be a Beamter some day too. With the help of scholarships and spare-time work, he studied law and economics, settled down to practice law in Cologne. At 30 he started up the ladder of bureaucracy...
...million dollars worth of ads during the past two years plugged a five-word question: WHICH TWIN HAS THE TONI? One twin, of course, had a $2 Toni wave at home while the other had an "expensive" professional...
Sharp Focus. In Fort Worth, police received a routine letter from Twin Falls, Idaho authorities inquiring about a suspected bad-check passer and describing her as "25, 115 Ibs., 5 ft. 5 in. She wore a low-cut dress with short skirt, making it very hard to gain a description of her facial features...