Word: harrison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plane crash, the New Mexican changed hands and politics several times, is now owned by Robert M. MtKinney, cousin of Railroader Robert R. Young (TIME, Feb. 3, 1947), and Southwest Newspapers, Inc. which own three other small papers. But it is run by 42-year-old Editor Harrison, a hardfisted, soft-hearted political reporter who has been a hair shirt for New Mexican politicos for 17 years, political columnist of the New Mexican for five and editor for 17 months...
Saxophone & Type. A onetime coal-miner, logger, ranch hand, construction worker and saxophone player, Tennessee-born Will Harrison broke into journalism in Gallup, N. Mex., where he was stranded in 1932. He worked without...
...Harrison kept right on crusading in his column ("At the Capitol'') in the New Mexican. He has put the finger on an attorney general who was drawing a salary as a corporation lawyef on the side, exposed an unpardoned felon who was serving in the state senate, complained about the potash industry's "free ride" until the legislature tripled its taxes, uncovered a former governor's use of the highway department to pave his private property. Harrison's sarcastic nickname for Governor Mabry, "the first-floor governor"-to distinguish him from Commissioner1 of Revenue...
Amigos & Atoms. Editor Harrison puts out a partially bilingual paper. He sprinkles Spanish words through the English news stories, even uses them in headlines (VAUGHAN'S AMIGOS BLABBING). He thinks it a good day when he can run on Page One "a political scandal, an archeological discovery, a sculptor's prize, and an Indian fracas-all local...
...story it ever had-Los Alamos and the atom bomb. As a reward for not even hinting at the story only 35 miles from Santa Fe, the Army gave the New Mexican an international beat on the 1945 announcement of what had been going on at Los Alamos. Will Harrison thinks his crusading journalism also pays off. Since he took over, the New Mexican's circulation has gone...