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EDITH LINDEMAN Amusement Editor Times-Dispatch Richmond...
...Virginia's Democratic primaries, a Negro came within an ace of being nominated to the state legislature. Lawyer Oliver W. Hill, one of 18 candidates for Richmond's seven lower-house seats, finished eighth with 6,310 votes, just 190 short of nomination. Said the Richmond Times-Dispatch: "We may as well accustom ourselves to the thought that the Negro citizens of the Old Dominion may send one of their number to the General Assembly before many years are past...
...routine story went out on the A.P. wire from Buenos Aires, where Peronistas are out to get rid of Argentina's two biggest dailies by annoying them to death (TIME, March 31). The sum of A.P.'s dispatch was that the Government had sued to collect multimillion-dollar duties on newsprint that oppositionist La Prensa and La Nación had imported over the last nine years. (By law, newsprint for "cultural publications" is duty-free.) In Bogotá, Colombia, El Tiempo picked up the dispatch and ran a thundering editorial calling on the press of the hemisphere...
...refreshing. Oveta Gulp Hobby, wartime head of the WAC and executive editor of the Houston Post, turned to another editor and murmured: "I wish we had him on our staff." There were others who felt the same way. Soon Ashmore got flattering job offers from the Richmond Times-Dispatch, the Atlanta Journal and the Little Rock Arkansas Gazette...
...buried on page 3 of the New York World-Telegram, but it was obviously the story of the week. The dispatch, datelined Montclair, N.J., reported that a 66-year-old New Jersey banker was abed with the mumps. He had, said the Telly, "contracted the mumps from his grandfather...