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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1960
Page
4
Cecil Prince, associate editor of The Charlotte News, died at 37 after a career marked by insight and integrity. A thoughtful critic and award winning editor, he studied the South with enduring faith and gentleness, leaving a lasting impression on colleagues and readers.
Worth Bacon, longtime leader at the Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel, was hailed for his nose for news and insistence on accuracy. He educated cub reporters to seek authoritative sources, promote public welfare, and write clearly while upholding high ethics. He guided the paper with patience and toughness as needed.
In Richmond News Leader, a critique of linguistic purism clashes Wilson Follett and Bergen Evans over language accuracy and usage. The piece likens language to a precise machine, warns against tolerating sloppy speech, and argues for exactness to preserve civilization’s standard.
A reporter recalls Dunkirk veterans and civilians who aided evacuees and how Britain in 1960 shows a muted but enduring heroic spirit amid rising pacifist sentiment. The piece mingles memories of Dunkirk with debates over nuclear disarmament and NATO.
After a Democratic powwow, Lyndon Johnson’s health worries loom but he proves fine as a chicken pox scare passes. Socialite Mary Stuart Montague Price hires 15 American debutantes for a London coming out tour costing 1730 dollars per person, escort Don MacArthur joins as the only man. The trip spans major European venues from Grosvenor House to Rome, Vienna, and Amsterdam. Everett Dirksen quips at RCA event about computers returning dollars to the treasury as Democrats spend.
At the Women s National Press Club dinner reporter Hope Ridings Miller sang a spoof to How You Gonna Keep Them Down on the Farm about Mamie Eisenhower. Ice cream shaped like donkeys and elephants featured a Bipartisan Sauce dessert. Treasury Secretary Anderson recalls a tale of a Wichita boy dreaming of a million dollars.
University of Mississippi law professor William P. Murphy comes under attack for informing his students that school integration is legal. He urges not to tailor teaching to appease critics.
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