Word: monitors
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Over his San Juan newsstand in Texas' lower Rio Grande Valley, Quentin Newcombe tacked a sign: "The Valley Evening Monitor, the Valley Morning Star and the Brownsville Herald are . . . against our American public-school system. Buy other newspapers and help drive these objectionable carpetbaggers from our valley." The "carpetbagger" Newcombe meant is 73-year-old Raymond Cyrus Hoiles, a pinch-faced Californian who looks and acts as if he had just bitten into an unripe persimmon...
Until three months ago, few valley Texans had ever heard of Hoiles. Then, for $2,000,000, his Freedom Newspapers Inc. bought the three main valley dailies-the Brownsville Herald, Harlingen's Morning Star and McAllen's Evening Monitor (total circ. 37,500). From his Santa Ana, Calif, headquarters, old "R.C." himself rode into the valley on a bus to reshape the papers according to Hoiles. He threw out Drew Pearson's column, replaced him with Fulton Lewis, George Sokolsky, and his own column. His favorite campaign: a bitter, continuous assault on public schools on the ground...
Residents of the valley took different action. Meetings protested Hoiles' stand. The McAllen P.T.A. sent parents a statement which suggested canceling subscriptions "to a paper which denounces . . . public schools." The Monitor lost 2,000 readers; circulations of the others also slid...
...from Steven R. Petschek '53 and Jay R. Nussbaum '52, before a crowd of 300 in Paine Music Hall. The judges were L. C. S. Barber, British Consul in Boston, Wilbur K. Jordan, president of Radcliffe and professor of History, and Erwin D. Canham, editor of the Christian Science Monitor...
...chief attraction of debating activities next week will be the Thursday contest with Oxford on, "Has the Sun Set on the British Commonwealth." Wilbur K. Jordan, president of Radcliffe, L. C. S. Barber, British Consul General of Boston, and Erwin D. Canham, editor of the Christian Science Monitor will serve as judges...