Word: pascagoula
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Buckley's fellow kidnapers who cooperated with the prosecution. Watkins had been picked out apparently because as an ex-con he seemed more open to coercion. This is how the prosecution told the story: Buckley and another man drove Watkins to a secluded road near Pascagoula, where they were met by three Klansmen in full hooded regalia. The gang urged Watkins to perjure himself and say that Bowers had been with him at the time of the bombing. When Watkins refused, Lawyer Buckley pulled a knife. Watkins was dragged from the car and knocked around. One of the Klansmen...
...upwards of $27 million, Newhouse got the two papers, some choice downtown real estate consisting of a highly automated modern printing plant that he says is a "jewel" and, as an added bonus, the Pascagoula (Miss.) Chronicle (circ. 10,050). The deal also included half-interest in Mobile's WKRG and WKRG-TV, which means that the FCC must give its approval before the bargain is finally sealed...
...ownership is likely to be downright hostile. In Mobile, he was warmly received. The majority stockholders had been disturbed by paltry dividends, and they resented the hammer lock held on the papers by the local management. The stockholders were even more irked when management tried to squeeze the nearby Pascagoula Chronicle out of business...
...wrapped a page of Pascagoula news around the Mobile papers and started selling them in Pascagoula. The new edition, called the Mississippi Press Register, lost nearly $750,000, but the Chronicle lost heavily too. Chronicle President Ralph Nicholson decided to sell out-but not to the immediate competition. Canadian-born Publisher Lord Thomson bought the paper, then turned around and sold it to the Mobile papers for a hefty...
...life of Henry James, The Conquest of London and The Middle Years; General nonfiction: Barbara W. Tuchman's The Guns of August; News photography: Hector Rondon of La Republica, Caracas; Cartoon: Frank Miller of the Des Moines Register; Editorial writing: Ira B. Harkey Jr. of the Pascagoula, Miss., Chronicle; Local reporting not under deadline: Oscar O. Griffin Jr. of the Pecos, Texas, Independent and Enterprise; Local reporting under deadline: Sylvan Fox, Anthony Shannon and William Longgood of the New York World-Telegram and Sun; International reporting: Hal Hendrix of the Miami News; Public service: the Chicago Daily News...