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With editorial staffers gathered uneasily around him, Managing Editor Ted Brooks of the Wichita, Kans. Beacon (circ. 94,434) in one sentence passed on the unhappy news...
Thus last week ended one of the least glorious competitions in newspaper history. When three brothers, Max, John and Louis Levand, took over the Beacon in 1928, they introduced a style of journalistic alley fighting that the rival Eagle had never seen before. Goaded to fury, Eagle Publisher Marcellus M. Murdock replied in kind. The contest quickly degenerated into a nasty feud waged in the pages of the Beacon and Eagle with such bitterness that there rarely seemed room for legitimate news. The Eagle squandered news columns on insinuations that the Levands were chiselers; the Levands, who are Jewish, periodically...
FRED R. POWELL Beacon...
...makes sure to run college favorites. He's run all of the Guinesses, several times. The un-American stuff at the Exeter, Kenmore and Beacon Hill, all makes its way to the local popcorn emporium, as long as it's in our native tongue...
...light fiction, the historical novels and the Oriental adventure stories about Mr. Moto with which he learned his trade, he wrote about a life in which he had a vast emotional stake. The Late George Apley reached back to an earlier generation, the dying Boston Brahmins of Beacon Hill. But that Back Bay pride and self-assurance is what Marquand himself was always reaching...