Word: casks
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...asset that Chicago Sun-Times Publisher Marshall Field Jr. insisted on keeping when he bought the Chicago Daily News two years ago was the News's cask-shaped executive editor, Basil Leon Walters. Then 62, "Stuffy" already had 40 newspapering years under his size 44 belt, and that seemed like enough. But at Field's request he agreed to stay-at least until the News completed the move to Field's new Sun-Times building on the Chicago River. This week, the shift successfully completed, Stuffy Walters lit up a fat cigar, said goodbye all around...
...Swiss government cherishes its neutrality as a Saint Bernard guards its brandy cask. Last week, after scratching noisily and growling discreetly, the Swiss finally got across the point that they really did not want President Kennedy to appoint his old Palm Beach neighbor and friend, Millionaire Broker Earl E. T. Smith, as U.S. Ambassador to Bern. Smith's qualifications for the post were hardly self-evident. But Switzerland also had a technical objection: Smith's one venture into diplomacy was as Dwight Eisenhower's ambassador to Batista's Cuba; his appointment would embarrass the Swiss...