One-time newspaper reporter di Rosa had gambled on this place, buying the land to plant to wine grapes back in the 1960s, although its climate in the chilly, foggy Carneros region above San Francisco Bay was considered by many back then to be better suited to herding sheep (carneros).
And in a third case, justices said they would hear an appeal by Mr. Black and two colleagues seeking to overturn their convictions for defrauding shareholders of the one-time newspaper publishing giant Hollinger International Inc.
The former editor of the London Evening Standard and ex deputy editor of the Daily Mail, Wadley is one of the people who will have a say on who becomes editor of the august title, as she is one of the independent directors on Times Newspapers, who must approve the appointment because of undertakings given by Murdoch when he bought the title in 1981.
The Telegraph was at one time a Liberal newspaper - so loyal to Gladstone that Disraeli mockingly called it the Delirium Tremens - but my reading suggests that it has not been so for some time.
The renaissance also encompassed the revitalization of journalism as a literary medium; writers such as Floyd Dell, Anderson, Dreiser, and Sandburg all were associated at one time with Chicago newspapers.
Mr. Black, often described as a millionaire who lived like a billionaire, built a single newspaper in Sherbrooke, Quebec, which he bought in 1976, into what was at one time the third-largest newspaper company in the world.
At one time, some magazine and newspaper publishers perceived television and radio as rivals for ad revenue from makers of prescription drugs, but the media are now working together.
At one time, he owned four newspapers.
In the past year a generation of mighty critics has fallen: Michael Kennedy, 88, on the last day of 2014; Andrew Porter, 86, at one time a critic of this newspaper; Edward Greenfield, 86, for many decades a Guardian critic; and, earlier this month, Rodney Milnes, 79, longtime editor of Opera magazine.
One time, I read in a newspaper that the former head of the Metropolitan Museum of Art resolved some issues just to get the person to go away.
