Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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James C. Turner is a onetime shoe salesman with a chronic sore back. Raised in Texas, exposed for a while to big-city life in Detroit, he decided in 1964, at 42, to become a publisher in a small Michigan town. He chose Howell (pop. 5,000), in Livingston County...
After an unsuccessful attempt at a weekly newspaper (it went under while he was laid up with back trouble), Turner launched a monthly newsmagazine called Today. With a format unabashedly imitative of TIME'S, the first issue (December 1967) attacked the "royal mess" in a local school system. Then...
After accusing Lavan of plundering estates entrusted to him by the probate court, Turner wrote in April 1968, that Lavan "has almost totally corrupted the entire judicial system in Livingston County." For this and a similar outburst, Turner was convicted of contempt of court, sentenced to 15 days in jail...
Winston Churchill liked to start the day with a bit of grouse and a dollop of caviar. These days at 10 Downing Street, Prime Minister Wilson often greets the morning with a plateful of steamed turbot. For passengers on the daily Brighton Belle train to London, it is buttered kippers...
How much longer appears to be the question-and the prognosis is dim. The British equivalent of France's Guide Michelin is an annual directory of hotels, inns, restaurants and pubs published for the past 13 years by Travel Critic Egon Ronay, a Hungarian-born ex-hotelier. In the...