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Perhaps it still is a gentleman's game, but the Big Three have found that the upstart gentlemen from Army, Navy, Dartmouth, Wesleyan, Williams and Cornell have begun to muscle in A championship nowadays is an accomplishment...
...upstart young magazine was Vogue, whose circulation was hovering around 5,000. Since then Vogue has boosted its circulation (now 415,400), added the successful British (circ. 140,000) and French (circ. 25,000) editions and has become the world's No. 1 fashion magazine. The credit goes largely to Edna Woolman Chase, who at 77 has spent 59 years on the magazine, most of them as Vogue's editorial boss and arbiter of good taste. Last week, with an assist from her actress-author daughter Ilka Chase (Past Imperfect), Editor Chase published her autobiography, Always in Vogue...
Then Knowland, who has always considered Dick Nixon an upstart, arrived at the convention and quietly passed the word that he was for Ahmanson. He blocked a move for a secret ballot in the election, and the Nixon bloc caved in. Ahmanson was chosen by acclamation, and thereby Goody Knight took a long step toward control of the California delegation to the 1956 Republican National Convention...
...starting new features first in the free section of the paper, then moving them to the supplement for paid subscribers, he got more and more paid subscribers, finally stopped giving the paper away altogether. The plan worked so well that eleven years after he started, McCraken's upstart Eagle bought its entrenched competitor, the 60-year-old Cheyenne Wyoming State Tribune, and moved from its own grubby offices into the Tribune's modern plant. Later he repeated the same trick with other papers he took over, pepped them up with wider wire-service coverage, broadened local-news coverage...
...Daily Worker" Other readers, damning its doggedly independent, liberal ways, refer to it as "that damn Journal." (One prominent Milwaukeean pays his newsboy 25? a week to tear out the editorial page before delivering the paper.) Isolationist Chicago Tribune Publisher Colonel Robert McCormick, who considers the Journal a radical upstart in the Trib's Chicagoland, calls it a "wood pussy...