Word: dowd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What ho! The villain steals the gold!" then was slugged by the villain with a bag filled with nuts, bolts and nails. Surgeons had to repair his fractured skull by installing a metal plate above his right eye. Met and married, in 1931, a fellow journalism student, Gladys Hope Dowd. They have four adopted children, including two World War II war orphans (one French, one German...
...views the News has drawn violent abuse. One night last spring a voice threatened O'Dowd on the telephone: "This is the Klan. We're going to get you." When the editor drove away from his office at 2 a.m., a car chased him, pulled alongside him three times to force him into the curb, until he shook it by turning into a side street and dousing his lights. City Editor Charles Moore went to cover an out-of-town Klan meeting, was punched and chased away. While covering a basketball game, Baptist Minister L. B. Ballard...
...reader complaints and cancellations. In February circulation showed a loss for the first time in years. Early in March the county Democratic convention passed a resolution denouncing the News as the "carpetbagger press." In electing delegates to the state convention, the group pointedly rejected Editor O'Dowd, who ran 45th in a field...
Abdication. That was the last straw. Fortnight ago O'Dowd announced "a retreat from reason" in a long editorial. "It has become obvious," he wrote, "that to maintain effectiveness in other important areas of thought, this newspaper must abdicate its position in the segregation controversy. We have seen the situation as being insoluble in the hands of extremists, and have sought men of good will who can sift the elements of right from the chaff of unreason on both sides of the conflict. [But] men seeking the fair solution have not, in two years, come forward. They...
Last week sympathetic letters streamed into O'Dowd's office. "Your editorial," began a typical one, "made me feel guilty." Said O'Dowd: "I realized there was a considerable amount of support for the views of moderation, but I didn't realize how big it was. I'm not discouraged." He will continue to cover the segregation story "on its merits" in the news columns, hopes that the editorial "position we've been forced to take as a temporary setback to moderation in our area may be the catalyst to bring the moderates into...