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Official blogs have the advantage of being written by real journalists who take ethics and journalistic methodology seriously. Linda Vester, host of Fox’s “Day Side,” told me that in writing her blog, she “[tries] to adhere to the same journalistic principle of balance that I do when I’m on the air.” In fact, the blogs on Fox’s website may be its least partisan element. Vester says she uses her blog to “generate discussion for the following...
...gates to chat with fans and had fireworks fights with his buddies and relatives on the lawn. Today, whether they knew him or not, everyone on Graceland's staff, which grows to 450 during the summer season, refers to the singer by his first name. Elvis' septuagenarian uncle, Vester Presley, who once manned the gates, promotes his Southern cookbook in the record store called EP's LPs, and the aroma of down-home dinners still drifts through the house. The King's aunt Delta Biggs, 68, inhabits a downstairs suite and cooks for the night cleaning crew...
LaVergne (pop. 5,500) is a decidedly rawboned blue-collar town rather than a quaint Tennessee tourist attraction. Dotted with car washes and low-rise factories, it has a work force that exceeds its population. Mayor Vester Waldron describes the place as a "bedroom community without the bedrooms...
Died. Bertha Spafford Vester, 90, Jerusalem's Florence Nightingale, who cared for thousands of Christians, Moslems and Jews under four flags (Turkish, British, Jordanian and Israeli); in Jerusalem. Called "Ummuna" (mother of us all) by her Arab friends, the ex-Chicagoan (who moved to the Holy City in 1881 with her parents) treated both British and Turkish soldiers wounded in the city during World War I, Jewish and Arab soldiers during the 1948 war. Her Spafford Memorial Children's Hospital, founded in 1925, is now -with its infant-welfare center and 60-bed clinic-one of the best...
...signed by, among others, John Hancock), Damon has made a name as an innovator. In 1934 he introduced the idea of a bank issuing a letter of credit for individual auto buyers. (He recently recalled: "I said to myself, Good God, if I can do this for International Har vester or Mack Truck, why can't I do it for the guy who's going to buy a Chevrolet?") Only last June Damon came out with Bankcardchek, an imaginative new system combining revolving credit, traveler's checks and a checking account. The first to applaud Damon...