Word: newarkers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least of all President Kennedy, was trying to con the press. His two chief press liaison officers were working overtime, by direct presidential order, to keep reporters thoroughly informed. Arthur Sylvester, 61, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs and a former newsman himself (37 years on the Newark Evening News), had the experience to understand and soothe press corps complaints about Government news control. Patient and cooperative, Sylvester was holding three press conferences a day to see that newsmen got every bit of intelligence they were entitled to. Presidential Press Secretary Pierre Salinger rushed White House bulletins...
DALE F. BRAY Head of Department Department of Entomology University of Delaware Newark...
Gung-Ho, Heads-Up. Wally was a wild boy. "I hated to open the front door," his mother recalls, "and see the police chief again." After attending public schools in Oradell and Englewood. N.J., Wally went briefly to Newark College of Engineering, and in 1942 got an appointment to Annapolis. He graduated in 1945. 215th in a class of 1,045. Just too late for World War II. In 1946 Wally Schirra married svelte, blonde Josephine Fraser, stepdaughter of Admiral James L. Holloway, who commanded in the Northeastern Atlantic and Mediterranean area during World...
...gentle a painter, George Inness was occasionally a trial. When his father, a Newark merchant, got him a job in a store, young George hid from the customers until the customers ceased to come. He worked with a map-making outfit for a while, quit in a huff, then returned and quit again. Finally, he settled down to painting, with just enough sales and help from patrons to support himself and his growing family...
...Right, Reverends." A Negro minister from Newark began to read from St. Paul's Letter to the Galatians: "Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ." Up stepped Laurie Pritchett. Albany's coolheaded, hard-as-nails police chief. "All right, reverends," he said. "I want to know what your purpose is." Answered the Rev. Norman Eddy, of Manhattan's interracial East Harlem Protestant parish: "Our purpose is to offer our prayers to God." "You have come to aid and abet the law violators of this city," the chief shot back...