Word: stringers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stringer Reports Remarks...
...Linotype machines ("Eh, mate. Can't we have overalls like you?" called one begrimed girl to a man, gasped when she recognized Eric Clayson, chairman of the board, who had donned work clothes to help out). In Devon, an ironmonger's wife who works as a stringer correspondent for several regional papers decided to put out one of her own, used foolscap and duplicating machines to publish the Chulmleigh Chimes. In such villages as Honiton and Devizes, town criers polished their bells, walked the streets belting out the news...
...accident of geography has made Don Reid the nation's busiest death-house-beat man. Huntsville has Texas' only execution chamber (electric chair) and, as a wire-service stringer, Reid has been watching men die since 1937. Milton Williams was the 158th-a total Reid believes to be a record for U.S. newsmen. For many of the men, Reid is the only visitor. He has written letters to their wives and mothers, once shipped a body back home to Indiana. He has twice saved men by persuading officials to reopen their cases, has been begged by longtime dwellers...
Gart is as comfortable in Boston as a codfish cake. He was born there him self, but headed west to Kansas after graduating from Boston's Northeastern University. He became news editor of the Wichita Eagle, was a stringer cor respondent for TIME before going to full time in 1955 as Toronto bureau chief. In Toronto Gart got his intro duction to finance by covering the frenzied Toronto Stock Exchange and its volatile penny stocks. He also got his first market blooding (he lost $4.98). Back in his native Boston, Gart got a different view of finance...
...graduation of last year's captain, Jim Herscot, and first-stringer John Baldwin weakened the Crimson defense considerably, but a fairly good showing during the spring trip has brightened the outlook. Bron Thayer, Lanny Keyes and Ed Tarlov are slated to start Saturday's game with the Boston Lacrosse Club, while Mike Adair, a senior beginning his first season of lacrosse here, has also been bidding for a spot in the lineup...