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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...opponents charged him with Communist association with a zest worthy of Senator Joe McCarthy. Full-page ads howled that Graham was a supporter of FEPC, and that he had addressed unsegregated meetings. Voters were asked darkly if they wanted their sons working under a Negro foreman. Thousands received postcards mailed from New York City extolling what Graham had done for Negroes, with the signature: "W. Wite, executive secretary, National Society for the Advancement of the Colored Race."*Against such tactics Graham felt forced to play down his Fair Dealing as much as possible. Though he had served on Harry Truman...
...York (Page) 6, Chicago...
...Founder Herbert Ingram, grandfather of the present editor, brought out the first issue in May 1842. It carried spot-news sketches of Queen Victoria's fancy-dress ball at Buckingham Palace, and of an "immense conflagration" at Hamburg. Drawn from eyewitness accounts, the Hamburg sketch appeared on Page One only a few days after news of the fire reached London...
...Illustrated London News did not rely on pictures alone: as succeeding Ingrams moved into the editorship, the work of such writers as Rudyard Kipling, James M. Barrie, Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, Arthur Conan Doyle, and G. K. Chesterton appeared in its pages. Soon after the present editor took over, at 23, he got a chance to show his mettle when Queen Victoria died. Only twelve hours after the bells of St. Paul's tolled the news, the News appeared with a special edition about the late Queen and the new King Edward VII. Two weeks later, Ingram stationed...
...Jack's late brother, Charles L. Blanton, whip-tongued editor of a Scott County paper, was known as the "polecat editor," Jack always preferred a gentler and humbler approach. The most celebrated demonstration of its effectiveness was the 1942 Monroe County drought. In a 60-pt. streamer on Page One, Editor Blanton proclaimed: LORD, WE CONFESS OUR SINS, WE ASK FOR FORGIVENESS, WE PRAY FOR RAIN. An hour after the paper hit Main Street, the rains came. Recalls Blanton: "Trouble was, it rained so much the farmers couldn't harvest the crops. The farmers still come...