Word: howe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...burned up the airways. Winding up the 5 p.m. news, he lit his pipe just like a real Walter Cronkite, burned his fingers, dumped tobacco all over the desk, grinned wanly and shrugged. In Los Angeles, KNBC viewers telephoned the station to complain that Pinch Newscaster Harry Howe was chewing gum while reading the financial news. Not so, Howe later explained. Seems that while struggling with all those Dow-Jones figures, he dislodged a filling in his tooth and, not knowing whether to swallow it or spit it out, bounced it from cheek to cheek between syllables...
...Besides his significant contributions in the South, Howe encouraged people around here who worked in civil rights," Monro added. "He was a stout support to those people...
...Howe, former Charles Warren professor of American Legal History, died Feb. 28. He was a founder of the Lawyer's Constitutional Defense Committee, which provides legal assistance in civil rights cases. He spent the summer of 1965 in Mississippi trying cases for the Committee...
Pitts assumed that "the stature and competence of Monro" had attracted the gift to Miles. The gift, he said, was an appropriate memorial to Howe, in view of his interest in Negro education. "Howe might have been descended from New England families who were active in the underground railway in earlier times," he said of Howe's interest in civil rights...
...Howe's Support...