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While Texas-born Silliman Evans lived, the morning Nashville Tennessean (circ. 131)79?) was one of the most belligerent newspapers in the South. A hell-for-leather Democrat who left newspapering for a while to work for Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, Publisher Evans held that "no Republican is fit to hold public office." He tried his editorial best to see that none did. He also rang the Tennessean like a fire gong, calling attention to corruption and evil wherever he saw it. Cops, ward heelers, city councilmen and even Tennessee's late Political Boss Ed Crump...
Also named: Gene Graham, editorial writer, Nashville Tennessean, labor and race relations: John W. Kole, reporter Milwaukee Journal, economics and urban problems: Victor K. McElheny writer, Charlotte News, science and economics...
...News-Herald; editorial writing: Thomas Storke of the Santa Barbara (Calif.) News-Press; local reporting under deadline: Robert Mullins of the Salt Lake City Deseret News-Telegram; local reporting not under deadline: George Bliss of the Chicago Tribune; national reporting: Nathan Caldwell and Gene Graham of the Nashville Tennessean; international reporting: Walter Lippmann; cartoon: Edmund S. Valtman of the Hartford (Conn.) Times; news photography: Paul Vathis...
Died. Silliman Evans Jr., 36, brisk, self-assured publisher of the Nashville Tennessean, which he took over from his late father at 30; of a heart attack; while cruising on Tennessee's Old Hickory lake. A printer's devil at eight and the Air Transport Command's youngest World War II pilot at 18, influential Democrat Evans backed Lyndon Johnson for the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination, was recently appointed to the Johnson-led President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity...
Faint hope stirred in some corners: the Nashville Tennessean mused that "some of the fog can be cleared away as the heads of two friendly and allied states talk things over in an atmosphere of reason." But in Europe there were no illusions at all. William Randolph Hearst Jr., setting out on one of his journalistic junkets, sensed a "European atmosphere of doubt about the wisdom of the trip and misgivings about its outcome." And the French press was plainly not enthusiastic. "It would be vain to hope." editorialized Paris' Le Monde, "that the discussion magically ends the differences...