Word: raying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York Times.'''' A widely distributed series of cartoons in the Nashville Banner derided "Mixiecrats" and "Bleeding Hearts," pictured the North's "objective liberal press" as burying delinquency stories on the obituary pages. When newsmen such as the Atlanta Journal's Managing Editor William Ray tried conscientiously to dig deeper by demanding a racial breakdown of the 644 students expelled from New York schools as troublemakers, they ran afoul of school regulations that forbid such identification...
Though his New York series will prompt few Southerners to trade in their prejudices, it bridged briefly a chasm that is making it increasingly difficult to report the news with any depth in the Deep South. As segregationist Atlanta Journal Editor Ray, who gave the series a big play, said last week with unconscious irony: "I don't think Kuettner presents the viewpoint of the South. I expect he has become so objective that he may have lost his viewpoint...
Along with Bowditch and Richling at forwards, Coach Bruce Munro plans to start Guy Vise at center and Greg Loser and Ray Cogswell at the guard positions. The outcome of the game may well hinge on Vise's rebounding and the ballhandling of the backcourt...
Singer Johnnie Ray, 31, stood at the microphone in Philadelphia's Latin Casino, opened his mouth wide, and slid into a number he has sobbed to audiences the world over: The Little White Cloud That Cried. To club patrons, it seemed the same old lachrymose wheeze, but to Johnnie the effect was like "the first atom bomb, exploding in pieces everywhere." Singer Ray had abandoned his familiar hearing aid, for the first time in his career was able to hear his own caterwauling at its painfully natural decibel count...
Johnnie doubts that his improved hearing has altered his style, but Columbia Records' resolutely optimistic Mitch Miller disagrees. "He told me," says Ray, "that my beat is stronger and truer to the notes, my voice register is lower, and my speech is more articulate." Adds Singer Ray, who was rehearsing last week for a European tour: "Thirty-one is a heck of an age to have your voice change...