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Guided by a Codicil. The Sunday Sacramento Bee had another purpose: to meet the threat of San Francisco's Chronicle and Examiner, which have recently pushed brisk Sunday circulation sorties into a jealously guarded newspaper preserve. To the custodian of the preserve-which also includes five radio stations and a television station-such poaching is intolerable. Valley residents seem to feel about the same way. In the 18,000-sq.-mi. domain, one of every two doorsteps is daily crossed by a Bee; in Sacramento so many people take the paper that a new carrier boy is handed...
...Custodian of the Bees is a 61-year-old spinster so shy that none of her papers have ever printed her picture. "Newspaper people should stay on the sidelines," says Eleanor McClatchy, president of McClatchy Newspapers since the death in 1936 of her father, C. K. (for Charles Kenny) McClatchy, who took over the Sacramento Bee in 1883 on the death of his father, James McClatchy. Eleanor McClatchy's guide is a codicil to her father's will: "I want the McClatchy newspapers ... to maintain ever their freedom of action and their absolute independence...
...responsibility to others. Who is never satisfied with the shoddy, and who is always striving for improvement. She is the person who knows how to think and enjoys doing so, whose curiosity is never-ending and whose horizons are without limit, whatever her future life, whether as a custodian of our highest culture, a molder of the next generation, or an active participant in the busy world's affairs...
...pink granite masonry now soot-blackened, the jail is under attack by builders who would like to replace it with an office building, is as fiercely defended by a "Save the Jail" group, including Architecture Historian Henry Russell Hitchcock, who calls it "a treasure of which Pittsburgh is the custodian." Status: besieged but still standing. ¶ Chicago's Auditorium Building, the first major work of Chicago Pioneers Adler and Sullivan, which served as the setting for Republican Candidate Benjamin Harrison's nomination for the presidency in 1888, and is ranked by Frank Lloyd Wright as "the greatest room...
...maintenance and operations) money for golf courses and other frivolities. Whether or not he was right about that-SAC, of course, denied the charge-the hard fact was that for five weeks the U.S.'s No. 1 deterrent force was lamed by the decision of the custodian of the Defense Department books...