Word: clegg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beer patio, pastel-painted barracks, library, hobby shop, trailer park for airmen's families, and movies every night. A doctor comes every ten days, a chaplain every twelve days, a dentist once a year. "I've been in the Air Force 18 years," says First Sergeant Clifford Clegg, "and this is the best station by far." Most servicemen, however, rate radar stations as dreary, dismal duty...
Publisher Beebe and Editor Charles Clegg favor unrestricted gambling, frequent sessions with "the oracle of Martini," and the hell with progress. And instead of "printed exhortations to THINK . . . the management of the Enterprise [strews] the editorial and business offices with cards advising the staff...
Does the paper carry a message? "When I have a message," says Editor Clegg, quoting Humphrey Bogart, "I send for Western Union...
...entire town of Virginia City, Nev. and nearby residents were invited to be the saloon guests of onetime Manhattan Society Reporter Lucius Beebe and Author Charles Clegg. The occasion: their purchase and revival of the long-defunct old sagebrush weekly, The Territorial Enterprise, in which Mark Twain got his first byline in 1863. Among the new contributing staff: Walter Van Tilburg Clark and Bernard DeVoto...
...HUGH CLEGG...