Word: raleighs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Raised in Raleigh, Royster went to prep school in Bell Buckle, Tenn., then to the University of North Carolina, where he reported for the Daily Tar Heel and made Phi Beta Kappa. "He was as busy as the bumblebee he resembled," a friend recalls. A few months after he joined the Journal, he went to Washington, where he covered the Treasury, Capitol Hill, the White House. As a sign of his new national outlook, he and his wife Frances did not name their two daughters for states; they are called Bonnie and Eleanor...
...McGill has converted the Atlanta Constitution into a respected voice of accuracy and reason. Likewise, Hodding Carter and his sons have made the Greenville Delta-Democrat-Times the only reliable daily in Mississippi. But, outside Atlanta and Greenville, the picture is very bleak. The Northern newspapers rarely penetrate below Raleigh, and many Southern editors cut crucial paragraphs from wire service reports of civil rights activities. When it comes to local coverage and editorials, distortion is even more blatant...
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...Jonathan Daniels of the Raleigh News and Observer deserves to be in any list of Southern editors who have "preached moderation for many years" [March 19]. Nor should the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot-a Pulitzer winner for guiding school desegregation-be overlooked...