Word: beeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once before, when she was only twelve, round-faced Doris Ann Hall of Hudson, N.C. had worked her way up to the finals of the National Spelling Bee, put on each year in Washington, D.C. by the Scripps-Howard newspapers. But that time, with 30 other contestants still left, she had muffed the word condign and gone down to defeat. This year, when she found that she was to be in the finals, she made up her mind: she was going...
...that point. Doris Ann had been lucky. She had taken each word slowly, often asking the pronouncer to repeat it for her. But her opponent, Marjorie Foliart of Crafton, Pa., was a speller who could go both forwards and backwards. To add to the tension, the spelling bee suddenly had a visitation: Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer came down from his office to witness the final rounds...
ALLYN F. EKSTROM Kay Bee Fur Farms Mt. Morrison, Colo...
...Bees are still liberal and staunchly independent. They still crusade, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1935 for exposing political corruption in Nevada. Four years ago, the Sacramento Bee was largely responsible for passage of a lobby-control act after it exposed California's most notorious lobbyist, 300-lb. Artie Samish...
Though commonplace in appearance and style, the Bees appeal to their predominantly agricultural readers with farm supplements and close coverage of their area, referred to by the papers as "Superior California." Says Editor Jones: "We're neighborhood papers on a regional basis." And Publisher McClatchy keeps busy as a bee watching her neighborhood. Says she: "A newspaper is a delicate and intangible thing that could easily go gaflooey...