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THE NEW BERN MIRROR, NEW BERN, N. C.
Friday, February 27, 195>
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•IN NEW BERN TODAY
Everybody is still talking about
the splendid performance that our
New Bern High school drill team
put on between the halves of the
Elizabeth City basketball game.
The girls were so happy over the
ovation they received from fans
that some of them cried with joy.
They didn’t expect this great vocal
outburst. In fact, it was so loud
that it drowned out the whistle of
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their captain, Elinor Nelson, in at
least one instance.
We are also very proud of the
high honor that has come to Gail
Robinson and Bill Cox in reaching
the finals of the 1958-59 National
Merit Scholarship program. Only
10,000 seniors out of 478,000 tested
in the United States qualified with
Gail and Bill.
From what we hear, Melonlese
Bordeaux, Elizabeth Goers, Janice
Bryan and Doris Adams thorough
ly enjoyed the annual convention
of Distributive Education clubs in
Greensboro. Meloniese is president
of the Eastern District.
While we are passing out bou
quets, we want to commend Robbie
Kennel and his wife, the former
Jean Hargett, for the first of a
series of articles that they will be
writing in Australia, while Robbie
is there for a year’s study at the
University of Melbourne on a Ro
tary Fellowship.
'The initial column, which we.
read in The Mirror last Friday,/
was quite interesting, and we are
looking forward to the future ones
Robbie and Jean graduated fi’om
New Bern High school, and of
course everybody in New Bern
knows that he was the most bril
liant student our school has ever
had. Jean was a good student too,
but Robbie is in a class by himself.
Even the girls in our student
body who watch their weight and
complexion took time out for Val
entine’s day. Who could resist that
wonderful candy in those adorable
heart-shaped boxes? Now we go
back to dieting.
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DIAMOND BOUND—It’s time to get in shape for baseball
again, so our latest Mirror Maid, Linda Harrison, is all set
to go with bat, glove and ball. Linda is already in trim,
thanks to the marching she does as head majorette at New
Bern High school.—Photo by Billy Benners.
DAVID BRINKLEY-
(Continued from Fage 1)
hobbies, and even back in the days
when the editor of The Mirror first
knew him as a kid reporter han
dling sports at Wilmington he kept
constantly busy at one thing or an
other.
However, he tells us that he en
joys woodcarving, photography,
hi-fi, and puttering in his work
shop. Whatever he tackles in that
workshop, it is certain to be well
done. David is that sort of fellow—
he is never content with doing
things halfway.
Perhaps the most flattering and
deserved criticism of his work as
a news commentator came from
the typewriter of Jack Gould back
in 1956. Jack, who isn’t inclined
to indulge in exaggeration, wrote:
“A quiet Southerner with a dry
wit and heaven-sent appreciation
of brevity has stolen the television
limelight this week at the Demo
cratic National Convention. His
name is David Brinkley.”
A housewife added to the Brink-
ley folklore recently. She wrote
from Oakland, Calif., that her steak
roasted to a crisp while she stood
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watching flln> on TV. Chivalrously,
he sent her a replacement.
Once, when describing what a
new missiles czar could do in
Washington, Brinkley said dryly:
“He’s a new man brought in to do
in a hurry what the government
should have done long ago.”
Incidentally, David moved to NeW
Bern and latched onto a job at the
A&P store on Middle street because
his brother, William “Red” Brink-
ley was already working here with
Tidewater Power Company. “Red”
was brought to New Bern by C. L.
Cater, manager of the Tidewater
firm and now the manager of Caro,
lina Power and Light Company.
Some time later, “Red” moved
his mother and young David here,
and the three of them resided on
Broad street. “Red” married a New
Bern girl, Ida Bell Gaskins, and is
now manager of Tidewater Gas
Company in Fayetteville. The third
brother in the family, Jesse, still
lives in Wilmington.
That the lowdown on David
Brinkley, the world-famous com
mentator you enjoy so on televi
sion. Maybe now, since you know
his local tie-up, you’ll enjoy his.dis
tinguished newscasting even more.
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