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3 unusual facts about The Commercial Appeal


Jon Hamilton

He began his professional career as a medical reporter for The Commercial Appeal and Physicians' Weekly and then worked as a freelance journalist and writer from 1995-1997

Sunday comics

In 1923, The Commercial Appeal in Memphis, Tennessee, became among the first in the nation to acquire its own radio station, and it was the first Southern newspaper to publish a Sunday comic section.

The Commercial Appeal

In 1994, The Commercial Appeal won a Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning by Michael Ramirez.



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Class of '55

Recorded at Sam Phillips' Sun Studios and completed at American Sound Studios, the album was documented by Dick Clark Productions, which filmed it from start to finish; by The Commercial Appeal, the Mid-South's largest circulation newspaper; and by Nine-O-One Network Magazine, the first edition of which was sold with the album in a telemarketing package.