Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Inscribed "Artur Rubistein" on the band: "That is what they call me in all Latin countries. The middle n is for them an extra effort...
...Texas the only major dailies to take a flat stand for integration and the Supreme Court decision are the locally owned and jointly run San Antonio Express and News (circ. 141,734). Tomme Call, editor of the News editorial page, won first place in the 1955 annual editorial awards of the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors Association for a piece urging complete compliance with the Supreme Court decision. The Express and News have run stories with picture strips on the success of interracial policy in the city's Roman Catholic high schools, also campaigned for integration with front-page...
...feeling [that] any area trying to combat integration would be making trouble for itself and worsening race relations," says Call. "We went into it blind. We had no way of knowing what public reaction would be. We were pleasantly surprised at the almost complete lack of opposition...
...Habits. Southern editors who try to call their shots as they see them must develop thick skins. Notable example: Hodding Carter, whose Greenville Delta Democrat-Times (circ. 11,980) delivers courageous coverage in the midst of hostile Mississippi. "We print anything about the controversy locally, regionally or nationally that we can get our hands on," says Editor Carter. Mrs. Carter often gets threatening telephone messages for "that damned nigger-lover husband of yours...
Finally, as a frosting on the cake, Curtice announced the first large-scale group life insurance program for U.S. auto dealers. The program, to be financed jointly by the company and G.M. dealers, will call for a $1 billion fund, provide up to $100,000 in low-cost life insurance (without a physical examination) for any G.M. dealer under...