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While Jack's late brother, Charles L. Blanton, whip-tongued editor of a Scott County paper, was known as the "polecat editor," Jack always preferred a gentler and humbler approach. The most celebrated demonstration of its effectiveness was the 1942 Monroe County drought. In a 60-pt. streamer on Page One, Editor Blanton proclaimed: LORD, WE CONFESS OUR SINS, WE ASK FOR FORGIVENESS, WE PRAY FOR RAIN. An hour after the paper hit Main Street, the rains came. Recalls Blanton: "Trouble was, it rained so much the farmers couldn't harvest the crops. The farmers still come...
...assembly line that could turn out a complete set every 40 seconds, set up a three-month training course for new workers. Harvey also kept Tele King ahead technically by being among the first to switch production to rectangular-tube sets and by developing cheaper cabinets. Remembering the PT-boat hulls molded from plywood, he got a PT-boat maker to turn out for Tele King "seamless" cabinets whose top and sides are molded from one piece of mahogany plywood...
...blue, green, and a raspberry known locally as impulsive red. Instead of news stories they carried long columns of verse. At 5 a.m., a navy radio station began to broadcast the proceedings. It was a most discreet broadcast, failing to mention that when the King was transferring by PT boat from the liner Selandia to the Sri Ayuthia, he did a good-humored dance to the buffeting of the waves...
...vice president of an insurance company, had been cleaning up his business before the weekend. He had just missed the 9:03 and had phoned his wife in Merrick, L.I. that he would be an hour late getting home. John Weeks, 30, a contributing editor of TIME and a PT-boat skipper in the Pacific war, had been to a Mexican movie on which he was planning to do a story. Weeks's wife and two small sons were waiting for him in Merrick. Steeil, Miller, Weeks and twoscore others rode in the head car, the smoker, some reading...
Died. John Miran Weeks, 30, wartime PT-boat skipper in the Pacific, contributing editor of TIME; in a train wreck at Rockville Centre, N.Y. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...