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Cartoonist Jumps Ship in Atlanta By HRW Vol. 11, No. 2, 1989, p. 6 Doug Marlette, the Pulitzer-winning political cartoonist lured from the Charlotte Observer when Bill Kovach became editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, has become the latest big name
Doug Marlette . . . on Marlette By Doug Marlette Vol. 11, No. 2, 1989, pp. 7-9 EDITOR’S NOTE: The following comments by Doug Marlette are–with a few recent additions and editing–taken from a 1985 interview conducted by Terry A.
Symbols and Mail Order Merchandising Randall Williams Vol. 11, No. 2, 1989, pp. 12, 14-17 Obsessions are never simple, and they usually lead to suffering. I, for instance, am almost reduced to going barefoot, my shirts are frayed at the
A Sampling of Other Catalogs By Staff Vol. 11, No. 2, 1989, p. 15 The Land’s End catalog is only one of many with racially discriminatory model selection. The following catalogs were received at one middle-income Alabama household over the
Kovach Named Nieman Curator By Staff Vol. 11, No. 4, 1989, p. 22 Bill Kovach, the former editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, is the new curator of the Harvard-based Nieman Foundation program of journalism fellowships. Kovach was a Nieman fellow
Native Southerners By Theda Perdue Vol. 11, No. 5, 1989, pp. 1, 4-8 Southerners do not think very much about Indians unless, of course, they are vacationing in the Great Smoky Mountains or perhaps south Florida where the Cherokees and
An Unending Stream: History One Day at a Time. Reviewed by Leslie Dunbar Vol. 11, No. 6, 1989, pp. 20-23 The News and Observer, Raleigh, North Carolina, (Friday, November 17, 1989, five sections, $0.25). We are swamped by information. The
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Mississippi’s Defiant Years Reviewed by Gordon C. Henderson Vol. 13, No. 2, 1991, pp. 18-19 Mississjppi’s Defiant Years, 1953-1973: An Interpretive Documentary With Personal Experiences, by Erle Johnston, with a Foreword by William F. Winter (Lake Harbor Publishers, Forest, Miss.,
Bill Minor’s Forty-Five Years of Progressive Journalism By Michael L. Cooper Vol. 14, No. 3, 1992, pp. 12-17 Bill Minor received a call in late 1947 from A. J. Liebling, media critic for the New Yorker. Liebling had read the
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Living Out Here Reviewed by John Howard Vol. 15, No. 3, 1993, pp. 36-39 Greetings from Out Here by Ellen Spiro (1993, 57 mins., video Data Bank, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 37 South Wabash Ave., Chicago, IL