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With no descendants, Publisher William H. Eaton, 76, has long looked for the right company to buy his successful monthly, The American Home (circ. 3,259,925). Last week Eaton acknowledged that he had found his buyer: the Curtis Publishing Co. (Satevepost, Ladies' Home Journal, Holiday), which has distributed American Home for four years. For an undisclosed sum, Curtis bought Eaton's majority holdings plus the remaining stock owned by President-Editor Jean Austin...
After 45 years of turning out biting, broad-stroked drawings for the editorial page of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (circ. 403,068), crusading Cartoonist Daniel R. (for Robert) Fitzpatrick this week started a two-month vacation of "fishing and unwinding." While Fitz is away, the P-D plans to rerun some of his old cartoons and tap the syndicated work of the Washington Post and Times Herald's Herblock, who has been carried every Saturday for the past few years. But the bulk of the daily cartoons will be handled by a newcomer: baby-faced Bill Mauldin...
Cheney Griffin's troubles began when the big (circ. 196,693) Atlanta Constitution learned of a visit to the capital last year by a delegation from southeastern Georgia's Appling County. About 20 years ago Appling County deeded almost 1,000 acres of land to the state for forestry experimentation; the delegation wanted 125 acres back for a golf course. The Georgia senate was agreeable; so was the house. So, too, was Marvin Griffin, who ultimately had to sign the bill. But according to the Fulton County grand jury indictment, Cheney took $1,500 to start...
...Says he: "A newspaperman's life is a good career for the man who's really disinterested, whose aim is to explain facts, whose temperament is detached." One of the first dailies to start Columnist White on his new career last week was the conservative Washington Star (circ. 254,992), which signed up for his column as soon as it was offered...
...plump, balding, 43-year-old writer is running the fastest-growing new religious movement in Brazil. Its name is Boa Von-tade (Good Will), but it might as well be Bonanza. With the cruzeiros rolling in, the movement owns a Rio de Janeiro radio station, two magazines (total circ. 200,000), choice Rio real estate, and claim's more than a quarter million followers...