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Word: crum (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...afternoon last week, newsmen on the New York Star were called to a hastily planned staff meeting. They knew that things had been going badly for the tabloid; as they filed into the fifth-floor advertising office they feared the worst. Dapper little Publisher Bartley C. Crum, looking worn and grim, climbed atop a desk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Death In the Afternoon | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

...have something," he said, "that I regret very much having to say . . . Tonight's issue will be our last one. We have made every effort to raise new capital, and get this paper refinanced, and it is just not possible." When Crum jumped down, rumpled, bespectacled Editor Joseph Barnes, flushed and close to tears, gritted out his thanks to the staff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Death In the Afternoon | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

Unkept Promises. In that five-minute meeting, the life flickered out of a newspaper that had been a sometimes noble, often confused experiment. In nine years, it had cost Chicago's wealthy, well-intentioned Marshall Field some $7,000,000. He had hoped for a change when Crum & Barnes took over last spring (TIME, May 10). They had big plans, high hopes and promises of plenty of money from new investors. The promises were not kept. Field had had to pump in another $600,000 and Joe Barnes had to neglect his editing to hunt more money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Death In the Afternoon | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

...rally, which is slated to support the Truman-Barkley ticket, includes as speakers Senator Brian McMahon (D., Conn.), Mrs. Borden Harriman, former minister to Norway, and Bartley Crum, editor of the New York Star...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Schlesinger Tops List of Speakers For ADA Meeting | 10/21/1948 | See Source »

...Bartley Crum, publisher of the New York Star, produced an even more striking theory: he seemed to be saying that Bernadotte himself was an agent provocateur and had deliberately exposed himself to assassination. Crum declared that when Bernadotte set out on the inspection tour during which he was shot, he "had taken a devious, roundabout route which led him, for no reason whatever, directly through the Stern gang stronghold." (Actually, the Sternists did not control any one part of Jerusalem; their known headquarters were nowhere along Bernadotte's route...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Bernadotte's Eulogy | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

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