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...sentimentalist where Cleveland was concerned, Seltzer did his best to identify the paper with the town, to such an extent that it often dictated the choice of candidates for public office. That is a role the present management has chosen to forgo. "By playing kingmaker," says Editor Thomas L. Boardman, 48, "we were weakening the role of the parties and the democratic process." So, by choice, the Press delayed its endorsement for mayor last year while Vail became chief supporter of the victorious Negro candidate, Carl Stokes...
...Boardman, who first joined the Press in 1939, also tends to leave investigative reporting to the Plain Dealer. "You don't spend the resources of money, talent and readers' time going after every small wrongdoing," he says. "You don't use a fire hose to put out a match." Like Vail, however, he has put together a more youthful staff, hiring 19 reporters in their 20s. The Press still performs its customary services for Cleveland's powerful ethnic groups. A reporter annually tours Eastern Europe, relaying news of relatives back home. At the same time...
...Porter Professorship -- honoring the late Harvard archaeologist -- was bequeathed to the University by Mrs. Porter on her death in 1963. Poerter, William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts when he died in 1933, caused important revisions in the history of medieval architecture through his archaeological research...
...money will probably be used for "all the purposes of the museum," Frederick B. Deknatel, William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts, predicated yesterday. The bequest is "a great windfall," he added...
Thomas also hopes to interest several research groups at the Ed School in using the Boardman and Lewis Schools for their projects...