Word: beeing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
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...
ALLYN F. EKSTROM Kay Bee Fur Farms Mt. Morrison, Colo...
Political Punch. As the Sacramento paper grew, McClatchy bought a paper in Modesto and named it the Bee and founded a Bee in Fresno (both now monopoly towns). His son became general manager in 1923, but he died ten years later. When old C.K. died shortly after, his daughter Eleanor, 32, was left to carry on. She had no journalistic training, but she grimly set to work to get it. Now she spends most of her time on the business side, lets able Editor Walter Jones, a 33-year Beeliner, make most top editorial decisions for all three papers...
...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...