Word: editoral
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rural Boon. An unusual number of Americans have been in North Viet Nam of late, able to sample the flavor of life in the Communist capital for themselves. Among them: Novelist Mary McCarthy, Harry Ashmore of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, Miami News Editor William Baggs and CBS Television Correspondent Charles Collingwood. Collingwood's cameraman was French Pho tographer Roger Pic, who took the pictures on the preceding three pages after the bombing pause was announced...
...editors of the two papers both owned by Scripps-Howard, it is almost incomprehensible that they are the targets of such criticism. Ever since the 1954 Supreme Court decision banning segregation in the schools they have urged upholding the law of the land. Press-Scimitar Editor Edward J. Meeman was a champion of Negro rights from the 1930s until he retired in the early '60s. Both current editors Frank Ahlgren of the Commercial Appeal and Charles Schneider of the Press-Scimitar, are members of the city's biracial commission, which has tried to smooth the way for peaceful...
Imitations & Echoes. The technique worked so well that he was elected class president and editor of the school paper, the Chatterbox, to which he contributed countless drawings and a flood of articles and light verse, not the least of which was a poem called "Child's Question": "O, is it true/ A word with Q/ The usual U/ Does lack?/ I grunt and strain, /But, no, in vain, /My weary brain/ Iraq." He also earned straight A's. His mother, leafing through an anthology of prizewinning short stories calculated that more prizewinning authors had gone to Harvard than...
Died. Damon Runyon Jr., 49, journeyman journalist (recently city editor of Washington's weekly Examiner), who labored in the shadow cast by his famous father, in 1954 wrote a bitter memoir (Father's Footsteps) about Damon Sr.'s destructive egomania; by his own hand (he leaped from a bridge); in Washington...
Died. The Rev. Guy Emery Shipler, 86, controversial Episcopal clergyman, editor since 1922 of The Churchman, an influential monthly unofficially allied with the Episcopal Church; of a stroke; in Arcadia, Calif. A rebel from his student days at New York's General Theological Seminary, Shipler spent a lifetime being for or against virtually every cause that crossed his ken; he supported voluntary euthanasia and liberal divorce laws, feuded with the Roman Catholic Church by stating that Yugoslavia's Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac was a "quisling collaborator of Hitler." Indeed, after World War II, The Churchman was accused of leaning...