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...signs and badges on newsstands, delivery trucks and employees' lapels, the Wichita, Kans. evening Beacon last week proclaimed "Wichita's New Freedom." What the Beacon was so happy about was a consent decree just handed down by a U.S. circuit court against the rival Wichita paper, the Eagle, which was ordered to cease and desist in its longtime practice of forcing subscribers to take both its morning and evening editions and requiring advertisers to take space in both editions or none at all. Moreover, the Beacon (said the Eagle) had sicked the Justice Department on the Eagle...
Talons over Talent. The Wichita battle started in the '20s when the Beacon was taken over by brothers Max, John and Louis (who died in 1953) Levand, who had learned the newspaper business under Publishers Frederick Bonfils and Harry Tammen in the carnival atmosphere (1895-1933) of the Denver Post. The Levands jazzed up the Beacon's copy, said that they would run the Eagle off the streets. The Eagle, under Publisher Marcellus Murdock, fought back with talons rather than talent, screaming: "Since the Levands came here ... a new word has come into use in Wichita...
...sturdily built man with curly, close-cropped hair and a smile that flashes like a beacon light, Quesada, 55, inherited his Spanish father's dark good looks and his Irish mother's charm and temper. He can be blunt or suave-but in either case he is likely to know what he is talking about. A pilot since he was 20, he has flown every type of Air Force plane, has been checked out to pilot the huge KC-135 jet tanker. Quesada wields more power than any U.S. air administrator before him: all the duties...
...began is universally known to Berliners as "the Hunger Claw"; a modernistic postwar church that looks as though a train might pull into it at any moment is called "Jesus Station." When Berliners use the high-flown expressions coined to describe their city's cold-war role-"the beacon of freedom" or "the show window of democracy"-there is always a sardonic edge to their voices...
Pablo's Strad. Slonimsky, who was born in St. Petersburg on April 27, 1894 (according to unchecked information), does his sleuthing from a book-lined study on Boston's Beacon Street. He attributes his success as a detective to his refusal to trust authorities. But even Slonimsky can err. He "feels disgraced" by the fact that he reprinted the story that Queen Isabella II of Spain gave Violinist Pablo de Sarasate a Stradivarius when he was ten (actually, as Slonimsky later learned, Sarasate bought the Strad himself when he was 22). And Slonimsky's new dictionary contains...