Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Orator Linder was so pleased with his speech that he bought time on three local radio stations for recorded broadcasts and a black-bordered ad in the Atlanta Constitution to spread the word. Said Herman Talmadge: "Tom would not be spending his money unless he was figuring on being a candidate...
...local reporting where time was not a factor and the "initiative and resourcefulness" of the reporter led to "constructive" results, the prize went to Kansas City Star Reporter Alvin S. McCoy, 50. His stories and reportorial work led to the resignation under fire of Charles Wesley Roberts as Republican national chairman (TIME, March 30, 1953). ¹ For editorial writing, Boston Herald Editorial Writer Don Murray, 29. He wrote a series of editorials criticizing the Defense Department's "new look." ¶ For international reporting, Scripps-Howard Correspondent Jim G. Lucas, 39, who is now in Southeast Asia covering the Indo...
...local reporting under "deadline pressure," the Vicksburg (Miss.) Sunday Post-Herald (circ. 8,800). It won for its coverage of a tornado that struck Vicksburg (pop. 27,948) last December, killed 39, left 1,200 homeless and destroyed communications. Despite the destruction, City Editor Charles Faulk, 39, with a staff of only five reporters, quickly got out an edition of the paper with up-to-the-minute news and pictures of the entire disaster...
...been well made in advance (TIME, April 26), two cases of polio, one of them paralytic, had appeared unseasonably early, and no vaccinations can be given where the disease has already begun its annual upswing. Other areas were certain to be similarly hit. Milwaukee decided to drop out because local health officers wanted to wait so long-to see how things go elsewhere-that there would be no time for the trials before school...
...Mississippi the state legislature adopted a new one-year trial program of "separate but equal" public education for Negro and white children. Starting in July the state will consolidate hundreds of small local schools, equalize Negro and white teachers' pay, provide 600 new school buses. Estimated cost of the program: $34 million (regular annual school budget: $25 million), making Mississippi's 1954-55 outlay for education its biggest in history. Should the Supreme Court abolish segregation, a special legislative committee will advise Governor Hugh White on legal ways to circumvent the court's decision...