Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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¶"Hymie the Mink" (square moniker: Herman Wallman), a Manhattan furrier turned boxing manager, who could not hide his astonishment at Gibson's volubility ("You or I would take the Fifth Amendment," Hymie told a reporter). Admitting that he knew Carbo shuffled managers and fighters like a deck of...
¶After jealously watching the National League's Dodgers strike gold in sports-happy Los Angeles, the American League last week decided to horn in on the rich market next season with a new team called the Angels. Biggest angel behind the Angels: Horse-Opera Star Gene Autry, 53...
¶Declaring that the University of Kansas had illegally recruited Star Halfback Bert Coan, the Big Eight stripped the proud Jayhawkers of their first conference football title in 30 years. The new champion: Missouri, which was trounced by Coan and Kansas, 23-7. ¶He had little speed and his...
For San Franciscans, modern journalistic history began in 1887 when the late William Randolph Hearst, then 23, received the morning Examiner as a gift from his wealthy father. Almost overnight Hearst turned his wan and unimpressive present into the gaudy forerunner of a 26-paper chain,* and within four years...
All That Jazz. One of the Examiner's difficulties is a problem that rarely bothered William Randolph Hearst: journalistic responsibility and respectability. In its rip-roaring youth, the Examiner served as a proving ground for Hearst's journalistic shock tactics; it was one of the first U.S. papers...