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...months. Although cynics sneered, he claimed to have been born again; few now doubt his religious sincerity. Has led full-time Prison Fellowship program, promoting Christianity among convicts, fighting for better prison conditions and more effective rehabilitation. Lecturer. Wrote autobiography that sold more than 3 million copies. Lives in McLean...
...Street will be missed. Founded in 1847 as Cummings' Evening Telegraphic Bulletin, it made history with its inaugural edition by publishing the first telegraph report in a U.S. newspaper, a dispatch from the Mexican War. The Bulletin was not so fast on the circulation front. When Businessman William McLean bought it in 1895, it was last in a field of 13 city dailies, and sold for 2?. McLean cut the price in half and increased coverage of local news. By 1905 the paper was the city's largest; by 1947, with 761,000 readers, it was the nation...
...that the theft was "not gentlemanly." "We never particularly contended it was," Roberts replied. The Bulletin launched a morning edition in 1978, but by then the momentum had shifted decisively. When the Inquirer grabbed the circulation lead in 1980, the Bulletin was already listing badly. Says former Publisher William McLean III of Charter's last-ditch attempts to save the paper: "They thought they could rescue it, but they had the same problems we did. Nothing could be done...
...great-great grandfather James McLean Bell, called by other settlers of Pikeville, Kentucky "Jaybird" because he was always jabbering about some wrongness the world had done to him, and some wrongness was always being done, it seemed, in that east Kentucky town, in 1840 no longer the frontier but still a place where a man could make a decent living making malt whiskey and selling it to the survivors of the Iroquois Five Nations, and nobody would care until the night when Jaybird Bell, liquored up on his own hootch, killed a man in a knife fight. Then he would...
According to McLean Stevenson, then in the athletic department, Northwestern has had more than a touch of such luck...