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...Territorial Enterprise, rolled into Jacksonville in his elegant private railroad car (accouterments: three master bedrooms, a Turkish bath, a wine closet, a St. Bernard dog woofing to the name of Mr. T-Bone Towser). Local reporters converged on the track where Beebe was parked with his traveling companion, Charles Clegg. Q.: "How much did this rolling stock cost?" Beebe (Shuddering slightly): "That's vulgar!" Clegg (to newsmen): "I wouldn't ask how much your suit cost." Beebe: "But Governor Harriman just bought a railroad car for $500,000." Clegg: "And they tell me it's real plain...
...beer patio, pastel-painted barracks, library, hobby shop, trailer park for airmen's families, and movies every night. A doctor comes every ten days, a chaplain every twelve days, a dentist once a year. "I've been in the Air Force 18 years," says First Sergeant Clifford Clegg, "and this is the best station by far." Most servicemen, however, rate radar stations as dreary, dismal duty...
Publisher Beebe and Editor Charles Clegg favor unrestricted gambling, frequent sessions with "the oracle of Martini," and the hell with progress. And instead of "printed exhortations to THINK . . . the management of the Enterprise [strews] the editorial and business offices with cards advising the staff...
Does the paper carry a message? "When I have a message," says Editor Clegg, quoting Humphrey Bogart, "I send for Western Union...
...entire town of Virginia City, Nev. and nearby residents were invited to be the saloon guests of onetime Manhattan Society Reporter Lucius Beebe and Author Charles Clegg. The occasion: their purchase and revival of the long-defunct old sagebrush weekly, The Territorial Enterprise, in which Mark Twain got his first byline in 1863. Among the new contributing staff: Walter Van Tilburg Clark and Bernard DeVoto...