Word: bulletined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Deprived by the power blackout of the BBC's regular 1 o'clock news bulletin, Belfasters worried that the Irish republican army might be back on the warpath. Police shrugged off the explosion as an "accident," but privately they were not so sure. Hundreds of armed men mounted guard along the 90-mile railroad line from Belfast to Londonderry. Their vigilance did not relax until Queen Elizabeth and consort stepped safely aboard their Viking and winged back to London...
...such feats the morning Journal (circ. 46,023) and its sister the Evening Bulletin (142,658) have won a reputation as the "journalistic conscience of New England." But they do more than bring wrongdoers to the bar. By giving their readers a blend of New York Times-like coverage, combined with the reflective aura of Boston's Atlantic Monthly and the hominess of the Martha's Vineyard Gazette, they have become the best and most respected New England dailies...
...Brown, who looks and often talks like a college professor, never went beyond grammar school. He started out in newspapers as a $10-a-week ad salesman on the Milwaukee Journal. After working for the U.P. and newspapers in the East, he got a job in the Journal and Bulletin's Washington bureau as a correspondent. When he first joined the staff, the papers had a far different reputation from the one he eventually gave them...
...Sons. The papers' activities have not always made them popular. Often readers in predominantly Catholic, Democratic Rhode Island regard them as Republican papers owned largely by Protestant stockholders. In some parts of the state a Democrat can hardly expect to get elected unless he attacks the Journal and Bulletin. Actually, the papers list themselves as independent, have supported most of the policies of the city's Democratic Mayor Walter H. Reynolds and the state's Democratic Governor Dennis J. Roberts; in the last presidential election they were behind Ike. Readers have also criticized their monopoly position. Publisher...
...ways attributed to some monopolies. Five months ago, 40-year-old Associate Editor Sevellon ("Jeff") Brown 3rd moved into the editor's chair that his father occupied, while Publisher Brown held his title as the paper's boss. Jeff Brown, Amherst ('34), joined the Journal and Bulletin in 1939 after working for the A.P., U.P. and Pathfinder. He was followed to the paper a year later by his brother Barry, 38, chief editorial writer, who last month won a year's Nieman Fellowship at Harvard. Says Jeff Brown: "I've learned from my father...