Word: tennessean
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...faint nostalgia assails me as I read comments in Press anent Nashville's Tennessean (TIME, Oct. 21). . . . I, as a member of the original staff, am too weak to resist adding a few episodes...
...Tennessean Memories Sirs...
...Tennessean entered the morning newspaper field against the Nashville American- nearly a century old and an Institution there. We of the newly-born Tennessean never knew the connection, but nevertheless our Tennessean presses (they were secondhand) mysteriously developed sanded bearings and delivery of the newly-born newspaper child was delayed unaccountably. We Northerners weren't any too popular either...
...Tennessean . . . that (Iraniland Rice first rose to full power. He had worked . . . with Suter in a publishing business in Washington. He joined the Tennessean under contract to produce daily one lull editorial column feature (mostly verse) called "Tennessee-Uns" and to handle sports. He wrote nearly a full column of sports verse and views daily. The only way he could write was with both legs spraddled across the typewriter, lolling back in an armchair. And no wonder, considering his daily output...
...should also be recalled that it was shortly after Senator Carmack's assumption of the editorship of the Tennessean that he was assasinated on the streets of Nashville because of a long-existing feud with Governor Malcolm Patterson...