Word: richmond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Different Colors. Despite great improvement in the past ten years, and such "laudable exceptions" as the Chattanooga Times and the Richmond Times Dispatch, many Southern newspapers still follow a "double standard" in news. Says Race in the News: "Negroes . . . are almost always identified by race; whites . . . are not . . . Hardly ever does 'Mr.,' 'Miss,' or 'Mrs.' precede the name of a Negro in the regular news columns . . . To refer to the widow of a lynched Negro as 'the Mallard woman' . . . is to deny her even the elemental dignity of grief . . . The Negro...
...developed a new twist for TV, which Sports Director Bill Stern calls "regional" telecasting. It is also tailored to local loyalties: last week NBC telecast Army-Davidson from New York to Richmond, while New England got the Yale-Connecticut game...
Fortunately both fullbacks, Mike Scully and Herrick Drake, are back this year, as is Charlie Weiss, Harvard's All New England inside right last fall and a potential All-American this year. Richmond Miller is the only starting halfback not lost through graduation, but sophomore Pants Pantaleoni looms strong among the halfbacks candidates...
Gourmets. In Troy, N.Y., three recaptured prisoners explained why they had escaped from Cheshire County (N.H.) jail: "Fried potatoes, day after day, meal after meal." Near Orillia, Ont., Walter Richmond told police that when he remarked to Restaurant Owner Harry Shore that the hamburger was cold, Shore shot him in the ankle with a .32 revolver...
...prizes (roundtrip plane rides to the North Pole and Venezuela) were nontransferable and Noone was afraid that if he should go ("I'd rather go to Richmond on a bus"), he would have to pay income tax on the cash value of the journeys. Deciding against $1,000 in knitwear, Noone asked the manufacturer for a cash settlement. He was offered...