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...late twenties, Shepard served as head basketball and football coach at Guildford College and at Randolph-Macon. He became basketball and assistant football coach at Davidson College in 1936, but after several years he dropped his football position to become athletic director. During the war he coached an informal varsity eleven at Davidson...
...Macon, Ga. the White-Fringed Beetle Control Division was paying for upkeep on an airplane which had flown only 30 hours in two years and only two hours in 1949, for testing...
...gravest charge: "Through repetition [Southern newspapers] have made the word 'Negro' in a headline synonymous with 'crime' and, in the minds of many, with 'rape.'" In 4½ months, the respected Macon News and Sunday Telegraph-News ran 153 headlines identifying Negroes with violence or lawbreaking; in the same period, in 801 stories about white lawbreakers, only four headlines mentioned their color. The council's conclusion: "Crime is peculiar to no race, religion or national group. [Mention race only if] this information is a relevant part of the news." Relevant: NEGRO RIGHT...
Thanks for your Sept. 5 report of the Macon News experiment [in headlineless, departmentalized news coverage]. During years of unfolding, refolding, reunfolding and rerefolding papers, I have yearned for such a one. The b.eef reported, "You have to read this paper to find out what's in it," was delightful. I do that with TIME and, really, I don't mind...
Managing Editor Joe Parham of the Macon (Ga.) News (circ. 14,773) thought he knew what the "Newspaper of the Future" would look like: departmentalized news (like a newsmagazine), and no newspaper-style headlines. Fortnight ago, for one edition only, Parham decided to let his readers peer into the future. The eight-page issue (price: 5? ) carried the news in seven departments (Local, State, National, Foreign, Sports, Markets, Life), topped stories in each department with drab, label-style heads (e.g., BRITAIN COAL STRIKE). Instead of the usual 24 stories on Page One, the News crowded...