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...printing plants in Concord, N.H. and Dayton, Ohio, the presses had run off a third of the 11-million-copy run of the January issue of the Reader's Digest last week before they were abruptly stopped. Digest Editor DeWitt Wallace and his staff had decided, after reading the late war news, to replace the lead article on MacArthur's Korean triumph titled "The Right Man in the Right Place." (About 4,000,000 copies had already been distributed.) Collier's, with a closing five weeks in advance of publication, could not do anything about its issue...
...color TV over the rival systems of RCA and California's Color Television Inc. Last week CBS began publicly demonstrating its color process to eager thousands in Manhattan, announced plans to have similar daily demonstrations set up in Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, Baltimore, Louisville, Cincinnati, Dayton, Columbus, Chicago and either Cleveland or Detroit...
...early years in Dayton were more often spent seeking jobs than being sought after. Of Yankee and German Swiss stock, the son of a high-school manual training teacher, Stanton started earning money as a newsboy. After school he worked at the Metropolitan men's clothing store where he progressed from stock boy to window trimmer and showcard artist. His former boss, Richard Meyer, recalls that Stanton was wise beyond his years: "We used to get into arguments about religion and sex -on a very serious plane. Most fellows his age didn't worry about those things...
Meat for the Grinder. During his four years at Ohio Wesleyan University, Stanton continued to work at the Metropolitan, commuting 90 miles to Dayton every weekend. He also found time to be elected president of the senior honorary society and of his fraternity, Phi Delta Theta; to be put on probation for his part in the production of a college musical, some of whose lines offended the Methodist sensibilities of Ohio Wesleyan's faculty, and to split a $2,100 profit as editor of the college yearbook, which was illustrated by a boyhood chum who later became well-known...
Modern Times. In Dayton, a housewife, equipped with field glasses, hired the Miami Valley Flying Service to circle over Wright Patterson Air Force Base, where her husband works, because "I want to find out where he goes after he leaves the field and before he comes home...