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...Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II, by Doris Kearns Goodwin; Fiction-The Stone Diaries, by Carol Shields; Poetry-Simple Truth, by Philip Levine; Biography-Harriet Beecher Stowe, by Joan D. Hedrick; Drama-The Young Man from Atlanta, by Horton Foote. The Virgin Islands Daily News (circ. 16,400) won in the Public Service category for a 10-part series on crime...
...trenchant polemic that appears in the summer issue of the leftist quarterly Dissent (est. circ. 10,000), Genovese argues that many American radicals were, in effect, accomplices to mass murder. Many U.S. advocates of a Viet Cong victory in Vietnam, for example, have never accepted that what they considered a radical egalitarian democracy was in fact a cruel totalitarian dictatorship. Until the left is willing to re-examine its ideological premises and admit its past mistakes, argues Genovese, it will have no moral credibility to attack such ongoing societal ills as racism and sexism. "The left will have to clean...
...when NCR Corp. -- the town's main employer for nearly a century -- shed 14,000 workers. Subsequently, Dayton Tire and Rubber Co., Frigidaire and Dayton Press all pulled out or closed down. "Dayton just got knocked on its butt," says Steve Sidlo, managing editor of the Dayton Daily News (circ. 182,000). "We were losing 2,000 jobs here, 4,000 there and 5,000 there. It was just bang, bang, bang, one body blow after another...
...well have run in Pittsburgh -- if only the city's two major dailies weren't shut down by a strike. To protest a plan to cut 450 of 605 Teamster positions, delivery-truck drivers walked out on May 17 against the Pittsburgh Press Co., which publishes the Pittsburgh Press (circ. 209,000 daily, 556,000 Sunday) and prints and distributes the separately owned Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (circ. 154,000 daily...
Readers of the Portland Oregonian will soon notice a big change when they read the sports pages. Starting this week, the state's largest daily (circ. 354,000) will no longer publish the names or nicknames of sports teams that employ racial or ethnic stereotypes, such as the Braves, Redskins, Indians and Redmen. Instead it will refer only to the cities or states where they play...