Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seven months, until last April 23, the Bay State Banner appeared on the newsstands once a week. Its staff was Negro, as was its predicted readership. Covering local church, community center, school, and urban renewal news almost exclusively, the Banner was read by more than a quarter of Roxbury's Negroes, Miller estimates, and was probably the only paper his readers read with any regularity or thoroughness. The Banner, following, probing, and trying to make intelligible Roxbury's renewal program, also won the support of the community leaders, largely through what Miller calls "our unusual editorial policy." The paper...
...Miller himself has some very strong convictions about what his paper is trying to do in Roxbury, and journalism is hardly his primary interest. He is a graduate of Harvard and Columbia Law School who never had anything to do with newspapers before. "I went to the library and read some books on publishing, and they seem to have been pretty helpful," he explains. He returned to Roxbury, where he was born, brought up, and is now well-known, not as a publisher but as a man with a mission. Roxbury, as part of Boston, is involved in the largest...
...over again. They also have to deal with a new crime wave every time an amnesty is even considered. To be sure, current offenders do not qualify for the amnesty, but they act as if they think they do. Evidently Italians who do not obey the law do not read it either...
...armed from the head of Jove. She had a mother, and the bitter title of her book was a nursing nun's obituary of Mme. de Beauvoir, who died of cancer, saying, "I'm too tired to pray: God is kind." It is a painful book to read, not least because the reader is unsure to the end whether natural piety toward the author's mother will prevail against her severe atheist principles. Mother was 77, "of an age to die," when she was attacked by severe abdominal pain, but nothing, it seems, had prepared Simone...
Nader won a special citation that read in part: "Though not a professional journalist, he has written on auto safety since 1960. His careful and documented investigation is superior reporting in the best journalistic traditions...