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On the ailing Tacoma (Wash.) Times, many a boss had come & gone. So when their newest boss called a staff meeting, newsmen merely yawned. But Editor Willam A. Townes, stoop-shouldered and deceptively mild looking, jerked them awake. He had heard ugly stories about newsroom graft. From now on, anybody...
Townes thought that an honest staff-and a few pay raises-would work better. Last week, five months after Townes came to town, the better and cleaner Times reached 47,077 circulation (up 4,000). In news coverage it was giving the staid Tacoma News-Tribune a run for its...
Sandy-haired Bill Townes, 38, has been crusading since he was 13. As a page in knee pants at the Oklahoma legislature, he wrote a critical piece on the state senate, shyly showed it to a reporter. Next day it was splashed across the top of Page One in the...
In 1642, the General Court ordered "that the Governour & Deputy for the time being & all the magistrats of this jurisdiction, together with the teaching elders of the sixe next adjoining townes . . .shall have full power. . . in the furthering of the said college & the several members thereof in piety, morality, & learning...
Dollars, Half Dollars, Quarters. Publisher William A. Townes agreed. Next day the Herald-Journal suggested that its readers send contributions for a Thank You Farm for Gene Atkins. Spartanburg's radio stations joined in the campaign. The response was wonderful. The Herald-Journal got few contributions for as much...