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...first assignments for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 1923, Cub Reporter Milburn Peter Akers followed a sack of potatoes from farmer to housewife to find out why they were so expensive. He handed in a story that had plenty of potatoes but no meat. He had failed to question critically each middleman's excuse for jacking up the price. When the city editor read the piece, he tore it to shreds and bellowed: "You let everybody impose on your credulity!" "On the way back to my desk," recalls Akers, "I looked up credulity in the dictionary...
Died. Lieut. General Frank William Milburn, 70, a husky West Pointer who won three Silver Stars for front-line bravery as XXI Corps commander in Europe and I Corps commander in Korea, retired in 1952 to become athletic director of Montana State University, in 1955 sat on the ten-man committee that wrote the new soldiers' code of conduct designed to guide captured U.S. soldiers; of emphysema; in Missoula, Mont...
...flat condemnation of right-to-work proposals. Negroes (some 15,000 of whom voted) disliked the Democratic regime's opposition to forced integration of eating places, were influenced by the rumor that the Ku Klux Klan and the White Citizens Council were supporting the Democratic candidate, William S. Milburn...
...silent treatment' for Mr. K. is as ridiculous as it sounds," said the Cleveland Press's Louis B. Seltzer, one of several editors polled by Editor & Publisher. Said Milburn P. Akers, editor of the Chicago Sun-Times: "Nothing can be gained in acting after the manner of an ostrich. We should not let Khrushchev score a propaganda victory. Still, the news, if any, should be reported objectively and fully...
...fired. This means that my contract will not be renewed in June. The crime, as cited: attempting to teach The Catcher in the Rye. But before I had a chance to teach the book even one day, Principal (of Male High School) W. S. Milburn, also president of the Louisville board of aldermen and a member of Citizens for Decent Literature, banned the book-without reading it. I protested in vain. Indeed, it was the unheard-of defiance in protesting such a dictum that led to my dismissal...