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Died. Thomas Lunsford Stokes, 59, Pulitzer prizewinning old-school newsman (motto: "A reporter is half brain, half legs"), University of Georgia Phi Beta Kappa who got his early lessons in journalism on Southern newspapers and the U.P., in political reporting under the late Raymond Clapper in the '205; of a brain tumor; in Washington. As reporter for Scripps-Howard, astute New Dealer Tom Stokes won his 1939 Pulitzer for exposing the role of the New Deal's WPA as a lever in Kentucky Democratic politics, set up as United Features columnist in 1944, was syndicated to 105 newspapers...
...also files more interpretive background stories on world affairs than the U.P., and in some capitals it notoriously outperforms U.P. Today none of the wire services boasts men with the global flair of the U.P.'s late WTebb Miller or the personal following of its late Raymond Clapper, but the U.P. has a sizable share of the standout American correspondents abroad and in Washington...
Pete Boyce, Mike Clapper, and Hubert Hocutt make up the starting foil squad. Bill Trebilcock will be in reserve...
...brothers began to notice, during the days that followed, that he was playing in a new way-with an invisible companion he called Manuel. And when it came to getting into trouble, two heads seemed to be better than one. Rags on the bell clapper, goats in the chapel, lizards in the vegetable dish-there seemed to be no end to the boy's devilment. One day Brother Cookie determined to put an end to it. "See that staircase," he told Marcelino. "You must never go up it. Never! If The Big Man up there sees...
...great 13-ton bell hangs above a large platform. To play it, two men put a rope around a knob at the end of the clapper. Standing under the bell, they swing it crosswise between them. This sets the time for the whole performance...