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...watchdogs of local governments in hundreds of U.S. communities, whose problems, aims and achievements go largely unrecorded in the metropolitan press. "We wouldn't be here if the dailies hadn't created the void in the first place," says a staffer on Seattle's weekly Argus (circ. 5.142), which has beaten the city's dailies on big local stories. Last week the Argus came out with a scorching editorial -first to appear in any Seattle paper- condemning the Teamsters Union in Dave Beck's home town for its "affront to the public" in refusing...
...well that in World War II he headed up the 55-acre, Government-operated Research Enterprises (radar and optical firing equipment). Tall, balding, an unbending pillar of Toronto society, Phillips is already president of two corporations (Duplate Canada, Fiberglas Canada), board chairman of another two (Canadian Pittsburgh Industries, Argus Corp.), chairman of the board of governors, University of Toronto. C| Carlos E. Allen Jr., 51, was appointed $50,000 a year president of the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank, succeeding Clifford Young, who retired earlier this year. His selection ended months of joint search by FRB Chairman William McChesney Martin...
...identified himself as a $12,000-a-year lobbyist for California's Superior Oil Co., which also produces natural gas. Last fall, said Neff, he went to South Dakota to scout Case's views on the gas bill, wound up talking to the business manager of the Argus Leader, Ernest J. Kahler. Neff inquired if Case needed campaign funds. Kahler said he might. Neff asked Kahler to find out how Case stood on the gas bill. Kahler subsequently wrote that Case was inclined toward the bill...
...belly laugh, Humorist Clark tries for a smile, or at most a chuckle. This folksy, low-key humor has made the cartoon so popular that last week it was being syndicated to some 150 newspapers, from Manhattan's tabloid Daily News to the Sioux Falls (S. Dak.) Argus Leader. It is George Clark's fond hope that every reader will recognize his friends (and himself) in the everyday lives of the pert housewives, harassed males and wide-eyed moppets in "The Neighbors...
...which Americans have ever since repaired. When Bushrod Washington, 27, wrote calmly asking appointment as U.S. district attorney for Virginia, his uncle wrote sternly: "My political conduct in nominations, even if I was uninfluenced by principle, must be exceedingly circumspect and proof against just criticism, for the eyes of Argus are upon...