Word: utica
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Warm Peninsula. Julie Harris as a provincial have-not wants to join the social haves in Miami. In SCHENECTADY, UTICA and ROCHESTER...
...radio-station owner in Utica, N.Y., Teen-Age Spokesman Clark won his spurs as a disk jockey while attending Syracuse University, caught on with ABC's WFIL-TV in Philadelphia after graduating in 1951. At first his youthful appearance counted against him. He looked unauthoritative as a newscaster, and the wrong man to be plugging beer when he seemed hardly old enough to drink it. He got his big chance in July 1956, when he took over Bandstand, a jukebox-and-dance show that had been playing locally for four years...
...later merged it with the rival Evening Star. Gannett started looking for other money-losing dailies to buy and merge-and soon won fame as the busiest newspaper hyphenator in upstate New York. From Rochester, where he merged the Union & Advertiser with the Times, he went on to combine Utica's Herald-Dispatch and Observer, Elmira's Telegram and Advertiser, Ithaca's News and Journal. He fought Hearst in Rochester (where W.R.H. spent $8,000,000 in a hopeless stab at putting F.E.G. out of business), and was himself driven to the ropes in Brooklyn, where...
...several years parents and school officials of the little farming community of Utica, Kans. (pop. 300) have worried that youngsters might be injured in the boisterous yearly initiation of high school freshmen by the senior class. So Mrs. Betty Stevens, English teacher and sponsor of this year's senior class, decided to try something different. Instead of seeing her charges mill around all evening at a rough-house gymnasium party, she would get the seniors to lead the freshmen on a pre-Halloween trip through a haunted house. Principal William Hobert Sallee, 60, got into the spirit...
...faithful Republican Wheaton, the job was a reward for years of service to the Republican high command. Born in Utica, N.Y., Annie became a newshen for the Albany Knickerbocker Press, started out covering the women's page, eventually took over the legislative beat. In 1924 she moved to Washington as public-relations director for the League of Women Voters, became so involved and well known in political circles that ultimately she took charge of press relations for Mrs. Wendell Willkie, Mrs. Thomas E. Dewey (twice) and Mamie Eisenhower during their husbands' presidential campaigns...