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...Daughter. Before World War II, John grew up, like any Army brat, in the long prewar round of the elder Eisenhower's duty assignments-Manila, Ft. Lewis, Wash. He graduated from Stadium High School in Tacoma, Wash., took an appointment to West Point (from U.S. Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas). This was John's own decision, as were later choices, e.g., applying for infantry duty; his father counseled but never interfered. A modest, natural "hive" (scholar), he spent much of his time at the Military Academy coaching deficient plebes, graduated 138th in a class of 474 (his father...
...Oscar Stauffer, 69, has bought twelve small dailies (total circ. 110,000) and three radio stations,* chiefly in Kansas and the Midwest. Last week, at a single stroke, Stauffer took over the vaster domain (total circ. 5,000,000) of another self-made publisher, Kansas' late Senator Arthur Capper. Reported purchase price...
...Topeka Daily Capital (circ. 64,304), which since 1941 has shared presses, quarters and business departments with Stauffer's own Topeka afternoon paper, the State Journal (circ. 23,471). Also in the package: another daily, the Kansas City Kansan (circ. 29,583), six farm periodicals, two national magazines, Capper's Farmer (circ. 1,462,513) and Household (circ. 2,578,797), plus Topeka's radio and TV station WIBW and Kansas City's radio station KCKN...
...Dead Horse." The Capper publications, which spent much of their space plugging the Senator's political interests, had found the going rough, even before his death in 1951. Since then, they have been further battered in a fight for control between two management factions. While the battle dragged on in court, Manhattan Newspaper Broker Vincent J. Manno (TIME, Sept. 7, 1953) persuaded the stockholders to forget their differences and sell out to Stauffer, who promised that "general policies and personnel will undergo little change...
...buying Capper Publications Inc., Publisher Stauffer was prompted by signs that his empire may prove a dynasty. Son John, 28, is editor of the family's Newton Kansan; Stanley, 36, who was publisher of the Santa Maria (Calif.) Times for five years, is assistant publisher of the Topeka State Journal and in line to succeed his father...