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Vacationing at Martha's Vineyard, the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell, pastor of Manhattan's Abyssinian Baptist Church and Manhattan's first Negro Congressman-to-be popped off to a reporter...
...Johnson, Vt. Last fall the tense, energetic Congregational minister lived for several weeks with a Negro family in Manhattan. He wanted to find out what Negroes thought about white people. He also preached at Manhattan's big (14,000 members) Abyssinian Baptist Church, whose Pastor A. (for Adam) Clayton Powell was enthusiastic about the Negro children's visit to Vermont. So were Pastor Low's white parishioners...
Fifteen years ago neat, bespectacled Ralph Nicholson and brisk, blue-eyed Clayton Fritchey were ambitious "boy wonders" on the Scripps-Howard Pittsburgh Press. Nicholson, assistant business manager, dreamed of a paper of his own. Fritchey, assistant managing editor, dreamed of being editor in chief of a big city daily. When they parted in 1931, Nicholson promised Fritchey: "When I do get my paper, you'll be the editor...
This week 45-year-old Ralph Nicholson, owner-publisher of the New Orleans Item, named a new editor in chief: 40-year-old Clayton Fritchey...
Cops behind the Bars. For the last ten years, slim, personable Clayton Fritchey's by-line has accompanied exposes and campaigns that have kept the Cleveland Press (circ. 253,540) the liveliest and one of the richest and most influential of Scripps-Howard papers.** Fritchey has been a managing editor's dream reporter with a reporter's dream assignment: to find his own news...