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Oct. 31, 2011
Entertainment & Arts
British press baron Robert Maxwell on Thursday signed a final agreement to buy the battered but still brazen New York Daily News from Tribune Co., the Chicago-based media group that had threatened to shut the paper down today unless it were sold.
March 15, 1991
Music
Saxophonist-flutist Justo Almario has taken part in some magic nights at the regional library here, working in duets with Brazilian keyboardist Marcos Ariel, or adding color to bassist-guitarist Abraham Laboriel’s trio.
Oct. 19, 1992
California
April 10, 2019
Travel & Experiences
QT Hot Dogs dishes out many favorites from Windy City.
Aug. 20, 1998
I have fond memories of Sunday visits to my grandmother, who lived in Solano Canyon from 1925 into the 1940s (“Found: The American Dream,” by Maryann Hudson-Harvey, Sept. 5).
Oct. 3, 1999
World & Nation
Before dawn each Sunday, a stretch of dreary streets just west of the Dan Ryan Expressway and south of downtown becomes an American Casbah, invaded by an army of peddlers.
May 31, 1993
Kenya Times has hit the streets with a new look and a new part-owner: British newspaper publisher Robert Maxwell.
Feb. 16, 1988
Blanca Velasquez, 31, was sloshing ankle-deep up and down flooded San Francisco Street in the small Northern California farming town of Maxwell on Saturday afternoon with an iPhone pressed to her ear, trying to find a clear signal to reach worried friends and relatives.
Feb. 18, 2017
Business
Textbook giant Macmillan Inc. surprised Wall Street on Wednesday by disclosing that it has met with British publisher Robert Maxwell about his $2.1-billion bid--a possible sign that it has failed to find a “white knight” to avoid a Maxwell takeover.
Sept. 1, 1988