Word: dietrick
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play to pictures and success stories of persons grittily overcoming handicaps (sample subject: deaf children learning to talk), decorously avoided touchy topics from the Kinsey report to the Confidential trial. Such a dry-cleaned view of the news stems from Publisher Lamade's German-born father, Dietrick, who with two others bought the tiny, two-year-old paper in 1884 for $1,000, and until his death in 1938 exhorted his staff to "avoid showing the wrong side of things or making people feel discontented...