Word: beaconing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Knight's home base is in Akron, where he inherited the Beacon Journal from his father in 1933. Every month he travels to one of his newspapers for a day's consultation. He reads all his papers every day, insists that every editorial be initialed so that he will know who writes it. His favorite activity comes each Thursday, when he closets himself in his office and works on his weekly column, for which he won the Pulitzer. Although he is a conservative, he has been a consistent opponent of the Viet Nam war; for the past year...
Knight's dailies are all locally oriented. "I would rather miss the big national story," says Beacon Journal Publisher and Executive Editor Ben Maidenburg. "The reader is going to get that on TV or the New York Times or the newsmagazines. I would rather get that Rotary Club meeting or the Junior Chamber of Commerce story instead." That fits in with Knight's thinking. "It is our obligation to print a lot of local news," he says. "We do very well at it; sometimes, I must confess, to the point where I feel it is boring." To report...
Dissenters Wanted. Knight encourages all his papers to take strong positions on political issues. They are free to disagree with him and among themselves. In the 1962 Ohio gubernatorial campaign, the Beacon Journal supported Democratic Candidate Michael Di Salle. Editor Maidenburg, who dissented, was permitted to run his own signed editorials backing Republican James Rhodes, the eventual winner...
...League, the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, the Boston Park Department Office. The Offices of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts. The Massachusetts State House, The Unitarian-Universalist Association, The Massachusetts Prison Association, Portia Law School and Calvin Coolidge College all sit on the peak of Beacon Hill. It is a tiny two-block neighborhood and for the most part, the institutions that reside there are devoted to enriching the lot of human beings. "So," says one Beacon St. resident, "how did Calvin Coolhitch Cowitch evah get up heah...
...dean, the graduate division was closed up in the mid-60's, but the school's reputation increased only slightly. Calvin Coolidge College is still completely unaccredited, it has only three full-time faculty members for its one hundred students and operates out of an old weary Beacon Hill House...