Word: stringers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Speaking at the first in the annual series of Conferences on Careers sponsored by the Office of Student Placement, Frank McNaughton, special Washington correspondent for Time Magazine; John L. Steele, staff writer for the United Press; William H. Stringer, assistant to to the editor of the Christian Science Monitor, and moderator John H. Crider, news analyst for station WEEI all agreed that "the water's fine and anyone can get in who has the ability...
John H. Crider, News Analyst, will moderate the discussion between Frank McNaughton, Special Washington Correspondent for Time Magazine. John L. Steele, Staff Writer for the United Press, and William H. Stringer, Assistant to the Editor of the Christian Science Monitor...
With Clayton, the most popular bootlegger since Prohibition, irretrievable. McLaughry has been shuffling and dealing three substitute quarterbacks into his winged T. One of them, temporary first stringer, is sophomore Jim Miller, a fair runner and one passer, but totally unreceptive. Another is the more experienced Gone Howard, who is a good ball-handler but throws what must be intercollegiate football's most wobbly pass. The third senior Dick Brown, is neither so deceptive as Howard nor so accurate a pitcher as Miller...
...Another stringer who has become something of a specialist is Bill Abbott, who spent most of the past year digging into Florida crime and aiding the Kefauver Committee...
...stringer may be a state news editor (e.g., Warner Ogden of the Knoxville News-Sentinel) or farm editor (e.g., Jack Leland of Charleston's News & Courier). Whatever his specific job, each was intensely aware of the business and farm booms still accelerating in the South. All spoke of the rising standard of living for both Negroes and whites; the continuing switchover to diversified crops, the rise in beef raising on improved grasslands, the increase of tobacco poundage on limited acreage, the tobacco industry's efforts to sell abroad and the fast growth of chemical and textile manufacturing...