Word: clevelands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Grooming Babushkas. They were soon turning Cleveland upside down, each hoping to win the impulsive Vail reaction to a story well done: "Terrific, just terrific!" Investigative reporting became the order of the day. Lawyers were shown to be collecting large fees from estates without heirs. Wretched conditions at children's welfare homes were exposed. One reporter posed as a Skid Row bum in order to find out who was stealing food from state-supported shelters. Vail created a department of urban affairs, sent its editor to study at Northwestern University for three months. He hired a fashion reporter from...
...necessarily been making its gains at the expense of the competition; the Press, too, is gaining circulation, if at a somewhat slower pace. To be sure, the Press is not quite the paper it was under its longtime editor, Louis Seltzer, who retired in 1966. An unabashed sentimentalist where Cleveland was concerned, Seltzer did his best to identify the paper with the town, to such an extent that it often dictated the choice of candidates for public office. That is a role the present management has chosen to forgo. "By playing kingmaker," says Editor Thomas L. Boardman, 48, "we were...
...readers' time going after every small wrongdoing," he says. "You don't use a fire hose to put out a match." Like Vail, however, he has put together a more youthful staff, hiring 19 reporters in their 20s. The Press still performs its customary services for Cleveland's powerful ethnic groups. A reporter annually tours Eastern Europe, relaying news of relatives back home. At the same time, he is instructed by Boardman to give more attention to ethnic customs and history than to mere social notes...
...heat of competition, the makeup of both papers shows more excitement than judgment: a clutter of stories thrown together without much sense of proportion. But at the same time, fewer Cleveland stories than ever before are escaping the watchful eye of the two papers. No matter which one wins the circulation battle, the ultimate winners are Cleveland's readers...
...King was pronounced dead, NBC and CBS deployed film crews to Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, where Duke Ellington was playing a benefit for a Mississippi Negro college. As it began, the producer announced the news and cameras caught the stunned and horror-stricken faces in the audience. From Cleveland, CBS carried a film of tear-streaked Mayor Carl Stokes Negro as his constituents sang America. No less eloquent was an interview with Ben Branch, a King aide who had been with him at the time of the assassination and who was still too be numbed to respond...