Word: beshoar
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...bartender named Lloyd ("Red") Barker was shot and killed by his wife. Local newspapers first carried it as a routine homicide, then speculated that the victim might be the last of the four notorious Barker brothers who, with their gangster mother, terrorized the Midwest in the '30s. Barren Beshoar, chief of our Denver news bureau, set out to find...
...Beshoar relayed this information to our People editor and went on with his week's work. As so often happens, however, the Gilda Gray item did not get printed. It now reposes in TIME'S morgue-along with a score or more of other items that failed in that week's competition for a place in our People department...
Another regional newspaper, the Santa Fe New Mexican, published a series of articles last year that gave TIME'S Denver correspondent, Barren Beshoar, his first indication that things were going badly with the Navajos. He made a trip to the reservation to see for himself and TIME ran the story in its August 12, 1946 issue...
...reporters for the Denver Post, the Phoenix Arizona Republic and other newspapers in Navajo territory found that many Navajos were faced with starvation this winter unless something were done for them. Writers for various U.S. magazines like Harper's found the same thing-as did TIME'S Beshoar when he again visited the reservation to confirm the facts for TIME'S Nov. 3 story...
...Barron Beshoar called on a Denver businessman to get his views on the international situation. The man gave him a long look, hrrmphed, reached toward the floor beside his desk and came up with a huge Spanish onion. "Here," he said, "have one." That ended the interview. If any symbolism was intended, Beshoar has not figured...