Word: jims
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quiet way, Jim shook the stodgy Observer alive. He dumfounded editorial staffers by showing up mornings at 7, imposed a strict ban on "puff" copy tied to ad accounts-long a news staple of both Charlotte papers-revived the Observer's bureau in Raleigh, the state capital, and added staffers in three Carolina cities. The Observer's gloomy makeup vanished in a wash of white space, new type, and pictures boldly played; its brighter columns carried livelier, shorter stories. Inevitably the Observer, historically dominant, stole further circulation and advertising marches on the News. By last year News Publisher...
Competition in Charlotte. The Knights, wary of complaints about monopoly, were not anxious to gobble up the News and take sole ownership in a town they entered only four years ago. But buying the News made the kind of economic sense that Jim Knight likes to make: fusing the mechanical and business office operations of the two papers will give the ledgers a real lift. As for the editorial side, Jim Knight plans to let each paper keep its individual character, with the News continuing as a folksy, locally oriented, feature-conscious paper, while the Observer moves on a somewhat...
...hustings 01' Gene is verminous in his tactics, but as raffishly delightful as a hillbilly Jim Curley. He waves his false teeth in the air and slobbers: "Them N-double-A-C-P goons knocked my teeth out." When a heckler asks about $14,000 grafted from a power contract, Massie chuckles, slaps his back pocket and says, "I got it right hyer . . . an' you ain't gon' git a nickel of it neither...
Army took its only set at second singles, as Jim O'Connell, a strong player with a fine serve, lost to Bob Bowditch, 4-6, 6-0, 6-2. Bowditch, after a lot of difficulty with O'Connell's service in the first set, found his touch and overwhelmed the Cadet in the next two sets, although O'Connell made very few errors throughout the match...
Although only six singles and three doubles count for Eastern Intercollegiate League standings, the two teams played an additional five singles and two doubles, with the varsity sweeping all seven unofficial matches. Jim Cameron, Laurie Pratt, Pete Smith, Scott Custer and Langden Smith posted singles victories, all in straight sets, while the doubles teams of Pratt-Cameron and Langden Smith and Custer swept their matches against fairly weak opposition...