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...Athens 4,000 banner-waving Greek students flowed through the streets, shouting against not only the British but the Americans as well. They tried to storm the U.S. embassy. On Cyprus four days later, students staged noisy protest marches in several cities, stoned U.S. consular buildings, clashed with tear-gas-throwing police and British Tommies. The U.N. had just voted (with U.S. support) to table Greece's claim to the strategic British island fortress of Cyprus...
...jobs after their schooling as copy boys, office boys, reporters on their local newspapers or small magazines. One began as copyreader for the Panama American in Panama City, Panama. Another began his training on the Pierce County Press in Rugby, N.Dak. And another broke in on the Sand Mountain Banner in Albertville...
They have dropped more than that in profits. Last week only four of the seven* Manhattan dailies were making money. Operating in the red were the liberal Republican Herald Tribune; the hard-hitting Republican World-Telegram and Sun, flagship of the 19-paper Scripps-Howard chain; and the banner-lining Journal-American, home paper of William R. Hearst Jr.'s 16-paper chain. The august Times, the sassy News, the Fair-Dealing Post have been making money, and so, reportedly, has Hearst's tabloid Mirror. But all their profit margins are down...
...around Princeton and New Brunswick, N.J.--where big-time, heavyweight competition began in 1869 and organized lightweight football held its first championship in 1934--the game rated banner headlines. For local 150-pound enthusiasts, it was a repeat of the first championship between these two elevens. That year Rutgers played to the crown before 10,000, defeating Princeton, and carrying off honors in the newly-organized 150-pound football league...
Electronic Cousin. For papers everywhere, the 1954 election was tough to cover. In the seesaw New Jersey race, the New York Post ran a banner head line: CASE LEADS HOWELL. Under it was a picture of "Senator-elect Howell, who defeated Republican Clifford P. Case." In Oregon, Eugene Register-Guard Editor William Tugman wrote an explanation of why the Democratic senatorial candidate, Richard Neuberger, lost, next day took it back with an article headed: NEUBERGER WINS AFTER ALL, MAYBE, HUH? FINE ARGUMENT FOR VOTING MACHINES...