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Many an Illinois daily considered the story front-page news. A six-year-old boy in Normal, Ill., had disappeared, and divers were brought in from Chicago to plumb an ice-covered gravel pit that the child usually crossed on the way home from school. But the Bloomington Pantagraph (circ. 39,384) last week steadfastly played the story on page 3. Reason: it was local news (Bloomington and Normal are twin cities), and the Pantagraph never uses local stories on the front page...
...been in force so long that no one on the paper remembers when it began, or why. Some say it dates from the 1880s, when, for the first time, regular word of extra-Bloom-ington events came stuttering in over the newfangled press service telegraph and-in Bloomington, anyway-took a greedy grip on Page One. Today the sight of a local story on the front page would perturb editor and reader both...
WILBURN W. NEWCOMB Bloomington...
Auntie Mame. Too late for Halloween and too early for New Year's Eve, but the Madwoman of Beekman Place raises hell anyway. Constance Bennett in CHICAGO, Eve Arden in SAN FRANCISCO, and Sylvia Sidney in LAFAYETTE and BLOOMINGTON...
...Kenneth Powers Williams, 71, military historian, longtime (1909-58) teacher of mathematics at Indiana University; author of the multi-volume Lincoln Finds a General (TIME, Jan. 2, 1950; Nov. 10, 1952), probably the soundest clearest history of the Northern Command in the Civil War ever written; of cancer; in Bloomington...