Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...morning of Dec. 7, 1941, a Sunday, the only working newsman at the Honolulu Star-Bulletin was Editor Riley H. Allen. Allen was at his desk at 6, as usual, following a habit of years. Just one hour and 55 minutes later, as the first wave of Japanese bombers swept over Pearl Harbor, Allen had the biggest exclusive of his life. Over at the rival Advertiser, then the only Sunday paper in town, the presses were out of action with a mechanical breakdown. Star-Bulletin Editor Allen, routing an emergency staff from bed, weaving stories from wire dispatches and eyewitness...
Islanders still talk about Riley Allen's exploit on that Sunday 19 years ago. In 48 years on the Star-Bulletin, he has given them plenty to remember. A lifelong Republican and small-d Democrat. Allen showed his colors privately and in print at every opportunity. In 1912, two years after his arrival in Honolulu from the sports department of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, he sparked the crusade that culminated last year in Hawaiian statehood. He backed legislation-opposed by the islands' powerful sugar and pineapple interests-that opened the public schools to children of imported Oriental laborers...
...result of Allen's leadership was that the Bulletin grew up. Born as an occasional handbill on downtown storefronts, the paper had gone daily in 1882 and settled into an indolent rut, focusing mostly on the doings along King Street and the arrival and departure of ships. Allen set about extending the paper's horizon, but not without occasional whimsical excursions into island fun. ?No one could be really sure what would appear on April Fools' Day. Allen once ran a great hoax about the remains of a Viking Ship being uncovered in the sands off Waimanalo...
...with the News. Half a century of energetic Allen direction has clearly established the evening Star-Bulletin as the conservatively Republican voice of conservatively Republican Hawaii. In a city that rises early and does not get around to the news until the sun slides over the Waianae Range, it has a comfortable, growing circulation lead over the morning Advertiser-103,180 to 59,679. The Advertiser's banner red headlines and high feature count are not likely to pull it abreast of the paper that carries 50% more columns of news each day, keeps 69 men in the newsroom...
...business school. The daily Crimson still retains its Harvard identity, but a Radcliffe girl is one of its top officers. Despite the fabled incompatibility of 'Cliffies and Harvardmen, Radcliffe's class of '49 reports that 42% of its husbands are Harvardmen. Sighed a recent Harvard Alumni Bulletin: "One can only hope that when the millennium comes and the two noble institutions become one, they will let us call it Harvard, rather than Radcliffe, University...