Word: sentinel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the defendants were still awaiting trial, said Jackson, one local newspaper (the Orlando Sentinel-circ. 29,349) published a cartoon picturing vacant electric chairs. The caption: "No Compromise-Supreme Penalty." As mob violence swept the county, headlines appeared which Jackson thought inflammatory. Examples: the Sentinel's FLAMES FROM NEGRO HOMES LIGHT NIGHT SKY IN LAKE COUNTY, the Tampa Tribune's NIGHT RIDERS BURN LAKE NEGRO HOMES. Although the sheriff announced that the men had confessed, said Jackson, the "confession" itself was never introduced in evidence. Moreover, said he, the trial court had thrown out, as irrelevant, evidence...
Local opinion was divided on the ban. The Evening Sentinel, speaking for Derby and several neighboring towns, termed Derby Day "loads of fun" and accused Yale of harboring a "New England conscience...
...Real Hick Town." The Journal dominates most of Wisconsin and swamps its only Milwaukee competitor, Hearst's morning Sentinel (circ. 169,445), partly because it never forgets that Milwaukee, in the words of one Journalist, is "a real hick town." The Journal covers it like a town gossip. No club meeting, ladies' bake sale, wedding or business luncheon is too small to rate a Journal story. But its wide coverage of the town's doings has not made the Journal necessarily loved by all its readers. Independent, sometimes cantankerous and always sharp in its editorial opinions...
...Walter Wellesley ("I hate the name") Smith, 44, a balding, mournful-looking product of Green Bay, Wis., went to Notre Dame ('27), once placed last in a mile race, the only one he ever ran. After that he took up spectator sports. He broke in on the Milwaukee Sentinel, moved to the St. Louis Star (now the Star-Times) as a copyreader. "One day they fired the sports department," recalls Red, and he got his chance. His first assignment was night football practice at Washington University. Red wrote the story from the viewpoint of a glowworm outshone...