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Special citations for special programs: New York City's WNEW, Rocky Mountain Radio Council, Boston's Lowell Institute Cooperative Broadcasting Council, San Francisco's KNBC, Savannah's WDAR, western radio stations (for service during last year's blizzard...
...managing editor. He brought along a flair for big pictures and blatant headlines. When Edward VIII abdicated, Ruppel proclaimed LONG LOVE THE KING! He sent a reporter to an Illinois mental hospital as a patient, bannered the inside story SEVEN DAYS IN THE MADHOUSE. After a blizzard: SNOW, SNOW, A THOUSAND TIMES SNOW. In four noisy, readable years under Ruppel, Times circulation doubled...
...Maryland's spring peepers started to peep, and shirtsleeved New Yorkers lay on green grass in Central Park. In violent contrast, Southern Californians shoveled snow this winter for the first time in their lives, and the stiff bodies of frozen cattle broke the blades of rotary snowplows in blizzard-bound Montana...
...Great Blizzard. The cold in the west was not the bright, dry cold that westerners pretend to enjoy so much. It snowed & snowed & snowed. Bitter cold and roaring wind turned the snowstorms into blizzards. The great blizzard of early January was the worst that ever hit the high-plains states. In South Dakota the Black Hills region got 50 inches of snow; Deadwood got 77 inches. Total snowfall for January in western Nebraska averaged 70 inches...
...most bitter winter the West had known since 1889, still remembered as the winter of the Great White Ruin. Since January's great blizzard (TIME, Jan. 17), one swirling snowstorm had followed another; Wyoming, Nebraska and South Dakota had been hit by 18 in 27 days. There had been incessant cold-temperatures had fallen as low as 40° below zero. Howling winds piled the snow in endless dunes. On the range, feed was buried deep; springs, watering troughs and streams were frozen; ranch houses were isolated, thousands of miles of roads were lost in drifts. Snow even covered...