Word: sevellon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bank robbery, the papers sent out two-way radio cars to chase the police and the fleeing robber. Their coverage of the chase won the staff the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting "under pressure of deadlines." At the head of that 220-man staff is Publisher Sevellon Brown, 66, who has bossed the papers for the past 32 years...
...Sevellon Brown, editor and publisher of the Providence Journal and Bulletin LL.D...
...conference, the U.S. delegation, including Harvard Professor Zechariah Chaffee, Sevellon Brown, publisher of the Providence Journal & Bulletin, and the Christian Science Monitor's Editor Erwin ("Spike") Canham, won enough supporters to get their "Newsgathering Convention" tentatively approved. But to do so, they had to bargain. Among the 55 countries attending, many wanted a clause giving a nation the right to demand corrections of erroneous stories. Unwisely, the U.S. agreed. One government might send a "correction" to another and it would be required to pass along the correction to its press, though the newspapers could decide for themselves whether...
...shifty-eyed gambler who walked into Publisher Sevellon Brown's Providence papers last September had a frontpage story to spill. Pasquale Borino wanted to fill in the Journal and Evening Bulletin on a mob which he said was running the lottery, sweepstakes, race-track and baseball-pool rackets in Rhode Island. But when Bulletin City Editor Leo Son-deregger tried to track down Borino's leads, he found they cut across state lines and involved shadowy national figures...