Word: lovejoy
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This week resolute Editor Dunn got his reward: the 1958 Elijah P. Lovejoy* Award for Courage in Journalism from Southern Illinois University. Said the citation: Dunn "exemplifies the courage and devotion to the public welfare which is the crowning glory of the weekly newspaper editor in America...
...Adventures of McGraw (Tues. 9 p.m., E.D.T.. NBC). To the honky-tonk strains of One for My Baby, McGraw (he has no first name, is played by Frank Lovejoy) loose-jointedly saunters into view, occasionally raking his sinewy fingers through his crew-cut hair. Badmen usually underestimate McGraw, but all women smile seductively at him. He hits it off fine with most cops, who overlook his occasional infractions in the line of duty. The most human of all TV's hireling snoopers, McGraw has sometimes mistaken a crook's pocketed finger for a gun, has dived prudently...
Southern Illinois University 1957 Elijah P. Lovejoy Award for "realistic devotion to the principles of law and order" that exposed him to "the scorn and abuse of a large segment of his community." It was Horace Wells's third award this year. The others: a special award from the Tennessee Press Association, a National Editorial Association citation for "courageous personal journalism...
...primarily due to tight money or to a more basic slump in housing demand itself. Speaking to bankers in Buffalo last week, President George S. Goodyear of the National Association of Home Builders declared that it was largely due to tight money. Countered Manhattan Life Insurance President Thomas E. Lovejoy Jr.: "The supply and demand for housing has more to do with the drop in starts than high interest rates. Since 1948, we have been building so many houses that the supply has finally caught up with the demand...
Clearly he must be stopped. The FBI (Frank Lovejoy) moves in, but the FBI these days, as every moviegoer has reason to believe, is more interested in getting its woman than its man. Agent Lovejoy keeps putting the arm on the counter girl (Terry Moore) instead of on the spy, which leaves Slob with nothing to do, through most of the picture, but make sandwiches. And yet, Actor Marvin, who is easily the most repulsive object that Hollywood has dug up in recent years, is such a skillful performer that when he starts hacking away at a bacon-lettuce...