Word: sentinel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bennett Street transit yards hide their dirty insides from the outer world. A seven-foot wall, smeared with the faded paint of overzealous Dartmouth fans, watches over Boylston Street. A high steel fence stands sentinel on Memorial Drive as the ugly eyes of old subways stare out at passing cars...
This was a bit much for many newspapers. The Miami Herald dropped one column, in which the editors counted what they considered to be several errors of fact or judgment, and heavily edited two others. Other papers-the Milwaukee Sentinel, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Cleveland Press and Philadelphia Bulletin-decided against running at least three of the columns...
Closest of all to this week's cover subject is Painter Peter Hurd, who lives and works on his 2,200-acre ranch. The Sentinel, near San Patricio in southern New Mexico. There he raises Brangus cattle and Thoroughbred horses, and has an apple orchard that produces in commercial quantity. The ranch is really an avocation ("Luckily, it's not my livelihood"), and Peter at times starts out to ride the range with his foreman and fails to get where he is heading because he stops to sketch scenes that particularly catch his eye. During the sittings...
...press was not to be deterred by the girl it dubbed "the Greta Garbo of the North Woods." A hearty band of four reporters and photographers from the Milwaukee Sentinel and Minneapolis Tribune set off on her trail. "We figured not even the White House could keep us off public waters and lakes," said Sentinel Reporter Toni McBride. Piling supplies and cameras into two canoes equipped with outboard motors, the press party occasionally edged close enough to Lynda to snap a picture or two but not close enough to chat. In the process of making eleven portages, the reporters lost...
...real doll," said Sentinel Photographer Jack Hamilton. How did the reporters feel about pooling their efforts on the story? "When it's five against the wilderness and the White House," said Toni McBride, "you share...