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...handles a typewriter about as clumsily as the average reporter would handle a Speed Graphic camera. But Francis Michael ("Slim") Lynch makes good pictures with either machine. A year ago, the Washington State Press Club gave old-time Photographer Lynch a prize (for a picture of a murderer's wife tearfully comforting the victim's mother). Last week Slim Lynch, who has now put his camera aside, got another Press Club award-this time, for the best-written feature story in any newspaper in the state...
Hulking, tough-talking Slim (for what he used to be) Lynch, 47, has found his new job no soft touch: "Jeez, I got so I could take the pictures they sent me out on with my eyes closed. This, brother, is different. Writing is damn hard work...
Back from World War I as a frail youth with a bad lung, Lynch slept through a spare-time course at the University of Washington journalism school. The first term, he says, all he learned was to double-space his copy. After six months of it, his news-writing instructor called him aside and said: "Mr. Lynch, you are wasting your time here. Your English is horrible. Your only possibility is as a sports writer...
Unlike most lynch mobs, the men who beat and killed Negro Willie Earle (TIME, Feb. 24) were not hard to unmask. Most of them wore cab drivers' caps; several of their automobiles were taxis. They were almost surely from Greenville, where Willie Earle had been arrested after the murder of a cab driver ten days...
...Lynch (E) defeated W. T. Bocricke '50 (H), 15-10, 15-12, 15-8; H. K. Foster '50 (H) defeated Harding (E), 15-8, 15-7, 17-15; J. P. Emerson '50 (H) defeated Buttricke (E), 15-4, 12-15, 15-10, 15-12; Captain F. H. Cabot '50 (B), defeated Koenig (E), 15-10, 15-12, 17-19, 19-16; S. Mead '50 (H) defeated Colwell...