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HOSPITALIZED. Ethel Merman, 74, clarion-voiced Broadway performer for 50 years; for surgery to remove a brain tumor; in New York City. Ever the trouper, Merman regained her speech two days after the operation, and within a week was singing and walking around her room...
When 200,000 people marched on Washington in 1963 to urge "jobs and freedom" for blacks, the Jackson (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger noted the rally dryly but reported the litter-clearance effort the next day under the headline: WASHINGTON IS CLEAN AGAIN WITH NEGRO TRASH REMOVED. Times have changed in Mississippi-and at the 146-year-old Clarion-Ledger. The state-capital paper, whose modest daily circulation of 70,000 is Mississippi's largest, crusades against corruption and police brutality toward poor blacks. Last week the paper's campaign for reform of the state's allegedly inadequate, segregation...
...Clarion-Ledger gave the eight-part education series an investment impressive even by the standards of bigger papers: Reporters Fred Anklam Jr., 28, and Nancy Weaver, 29, crisscrossed the state for four months, arriving unannounced in 40 of the 153 local school districts. Says Anklam: "We tried to catch people unawares." In 51 news stories and 27 editorials, timed to influence a December special session of the legislature, the Clarion-Ledger contended: "Mississippi public schools aren't making the grade." Among the ills cited: per-pupil funding of only $1,965 for 1981-82, vs. a national average...
Farewell to the helicopters, clarion call of the wounded, which open each show Farewell to the Swamp, home of Hawkeye's infamous still, which kept the camp in high spirits Farewell to the mess tent, the only place in camp the refused to patronize...
...popular have karaoke sets become that last month they were sold out at many of the approximately 22,000 Japanese stores that carry them. Almost inevitably, they are going to be exported to the U.S. After exhibiting them at a Las Vegas trade show in January, Clarion, the largest manufacturer, received orders from American dealers totaling $1 million...