Word: decatur
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rightfielder by the New York Yankees in 1919, Halas played in 12 games and batted .091. The Yanks lost little time replacing him with an ex-Boston pitcher named George Herman Ruth. Back to football went Halas -as coach, trainer, ticket seller, publicity man and player for the Decatur Ill., Staleys, later called the Chicago Staleys and later still (in 1922) named the Chicago Bears...
...Georgia, the Decatur-De Kalb News, which gives away 32,700 copies a week, has its own editorial cartoonist, pays the dues of all reporters who want to join civic clubs-and on rainy days fields as many as 500 telephone complaints from irate "subscribers" who simply cannot understand why delivery has been delayed. In increasing numbers, the giveaways break up the ads with news stories. But their editorial staffs vary widely. The San Francisco Progress, with a city distribution of 181,000-more than any of San Francisco's three big paid-circulation dailies -gets along fine with...
...would never mention Khrushchev," says Editor Ferdinand Mendenhall of the Valley Green Sheet, "unless he drops a bomb on Van Nuys Boulevard." The Decatur-De Kalb News has some 6,000 "associate editors"-all of whom paid $2 for the title, and many of whom submit stories to the paper. In Topsfield, Mass., the local school bus driver, an energetic amateur photographer, snaps all the pictures for Topsfield's giveaway paper, the Tri-Town Transcript...
...Born in Decatur, Miss., Evers was raised in black ignominy. When he was 14, one of his father's closest friends was shot and killed because he was accused of insulting a white woman. The man's clothing lay in a field for months afterward. "I used to see the clothes when I went hunting," Evers recalled. "I can close my eyes and still see them...
...department of mental health, plans to spend $50 million on eight "hospital clinics." They will be so distributed that no one in the state will have more than a two-hour drive to reach one: two in Chicago, one each in Centralia, Peoria, Springfield, Harrisburg, Rockford and Decatur-Champaign...