Word: clapper
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...wooden platform in the west tower of the Mexico City Cathedral, a wizened little man worked a 500-lb. clapper back & forth until the great bell gave tongue. With all the majesty of her 155 years and the strength of her 27,000 pounds, sonorous Santa María de Guadalupe boomed out the first glad tidings of Easter...
...Washington Columnist Thomas L. Stokes went the third annual Clapper Memorial Award, named for Stokes's good friend and onetime boss, the late Raymond Clapper. Said the citation of conscientious Tom Stokes: "Crusading spirit . . . tackles controversial issues . . . fairness in reporting both sides...
...years of Washington correspondence, drawling, Pulitzer Prizewinner Thomas Lunsford Stokes has built a reputation much like that of his onetime boss and friend, the late Raymond Clapper. Washington knew him to be, like Clapper, a hard digger, a writer whose prose has no wings, a liberal whose roots are not Marxian but native. Stokes is also a man with a merciless conscience: by sympathy a New Dealer from the start, he won his Pulitzer Prize by exposing a WPA vote-getting machine in Senator Alben Barkley's Kentucky...
Leland Stowe, Raymond Clapper and Vincent Sheean found more comfortable quarters in town, but they had to stop at the hostel to learn what was going on, and to clear and file their dispatches. There was no such thing as a scoop; all the news came out of press conferences and censorship was drum-tight...
...Olive Clapper, now planning a third book (the first was a collection of Clapper columns), still lives in Washington, keeps busy lecturing to women's clubs, serving on the editorial board of Look. Before he went on his last trip, Clapper told her: "When I come back I will be ... a crusader for peace." That cause, she is sure, could...