Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...says: "Ed Lahey is the best reporter in America." Next week, Reporter Lahey, 53, will take over from Veteran Paul R. (for Roscoe) Leach, 65, who is retiring as head of the Washington bureau for John S. Knight's Chicago Daily News and the other Knight newspapers (the Detroit Free Press, Akron Beacon-Journal, Miami Herald, Charlotte Observer...
...Detroit one afternoon last week, a bored Republican campaign worker dumped an armload of four-page election handbills into two conveniently empty newspaper racks. In a few hours, passers-by had snapped up all the campaign tabloids, deposited $3.52 in the cash boxes...
...Detroiters had never been so famished for news. For the first time in the city's history, all three dailies-the Detroit Free Press, News and Times-were strikebound. The stereotypers' union had closed the papers over demands that included a full day's pay for any extra work after eight hours, e.g., for turning out Sunday Edition color plates after hours on a weekday. Newsmagazine sales had gone up 30%; out-of-town newspapers were being sold for as much as $1 a copy...
...tell the news, Detroit's Polish-language Dziennik Polski jacked up its press run from 48,600 to 150,000 copies daily, wrapped an 18-page English section around its ten-page Polish editions. A pinch-hitting daily, the Detroit Reporter, was started by newsmen from the strikebound papers with $100 and blessings from the American Newspaper Guild and the Allied Printing Trades Council. At week's end it was printing 100,000 eight-page papers...
...hear him tell it, the old footballer is too tired to stick at his job for another year. It is hard to believe. This week, while his Chicago Bears squeaked past the Detroit Lions 21-20, Owner-Coach George Stanley Halas, 60, raged along the sidelines with the energy of a rookie. He might just as well have put himself back in the lineup. When Fullback Chick Jagade lowered his head and bucked upfield on the first play from scrimmage, Halas dug in and drove with him. Then Jagade fumbled. Halas stopped in horror. His foot came back...