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Businessman.(Remembering WFB)(William F. Buckley, Jr.)(In memoriam)(Brief article)
JOURNALS of opinion have never earned their way. Typically they have been subsidized by wealthy liberals and conservatives who believe, and are willing to invest their money, in their respective causes.
So when NATIONAL REVIEW was launched in November 1955, the general assumption was that it would be subsidized by Bill Buckley's father, William F. Buckley Sr., who had made his fortune as an independent oil operator in Texas, Mexico, and Venezuela. And so it was. But the Buckleys, though wealthy, were no Rockefellers, and within a year or two it was plain that the magazine's appetite for cash was greater than the family was going to be able to sustain.
Where to turn? In those early ...
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- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe David Nyhan, Globe Staff July 5, 1987 700+ words
...different guys more or less outpointed Bill Buckley, and all on the same night. So imposing...show host, he of "Firing Line" and National Review and the Reagan White House, that he...uproarious putdown of the editor whose National Review has fulminated over Fidel for two decades...
- BILL BUCKLEY NEARLY MOVED TO THE CENTER (FOLD).
- Newspaper article from: Media Industry Newsletter May 2, 2005 700+ words
A little fun from the folks at the conservative National Review, which will mark the 50th anniversary of Buckley...in the April 11 NR: The world is spared a Men of National Review issue. [Copyright 2005 Access Intelligence, LLC...
- BILL BUCKLEY'S 45 YEARS OF (BIWEEKLY) "DEFINING MOMEnTS.".
- Newspaper article from: Media Industry Newsletter January 10, 2000 700+ words
...January 15) on WNET-TV. But the other Buckley mouthpiece carries on, as he quipped on Meet the Press (January 2): "National Review [launched in 1955]--the seedbed of the conservative movement's renaissance--was the defining moment of my life...
- IN FASHION: (3) A WHITE-TUXEDOED TOM WOLFE INDUCTED ASME HALL-OF-FAMER BILL...
- Newspaper article from: Media Industry Newsletter January 30, 2006 700+ words
...Editors January 25 dinner. Honor to Buckley, who last November celebrated his 80th birthday and the 50th anniversary of National Review was well deserved. Ditto Henry Johnson Fisher Award winner Cathie Black (Hearst Magazines president since 1995). [Copyright...
- IN CHOOSING PAT CARBINE AND TOM WOLFE AS AWARD PRESENTERS, CATHIE BLACK AND...
- Newspaper article from: Media Industry Newsletter January 23, 2006 700+ words
...chairman Gertrude Crain was the first, in 1992), and Carbine clearly deserves to be the third. Concurrently on Wednesday, National Review founder (November 1955) Buckley will be inducted into the American Society of Magazine Editors Hall of Fame (joining...
- Remarks in a tribute to National Review magazine and William F. Buckley,...
- Newspaper article from: Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents October 10, 2005 700+ words
...Washington, DC, was Bill Buckley and the National Review. And today, we...modesty, that did National Review not exist, no one...accurate to say that only Bill Buckley could have invented National Review. And that's a tremendous...
- National Review hits 40.(several related articles)(Cover Story)
- Magazine article from: National Review Will, George F. Kissinger, Henry A. Sajak, Pat O'Sullivan, John Talent, Jim O'Beirne, Kate December 11, 1995 700+ words
...That was essentially the NATIONAL REVIEW platform. In 1995, we see...Kissinger WHEN I first met Bill Buckley forty years ago, he told...over Ivy League orthodoxy. Bill Buckley and NATIONAL REVIEW have become part of our intellectual...
- Au revoir, Priscilla. (retirement of 'National Review' managing editor...
- Magazine article from: National Review January 20, 1992 700+ words
...There is an illusion around town that Bill Buckley, all those years, put out NATIONAL REVIEW magazine. This is a cancard. He had a great...except the covers: I exempt her from that; Bill Buckley took a personal interest in the covers...