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...imposing paunch that leads Walter W. Fuller wherever he goes is a badge of long and dedicated service performed by a man who has eaten as much Kiwanis, Optimist, Lion, Eagle, Elk and DeMolay creamed peas and ham as anyone else in Detroit. Fuller belongs to all those societies and, thanks to honorary memberships, many more. But bald, indefatigably gregarious Walter Fuller, 60, is more than a mere joiner: he is also the fraternal editor of the Detroit News...
...years Fuller has worked at his unusual journalistic job, filling the Sunday News's fraternal page with items scarcely ever more exciting than organizational banquet fare, and hardly ever making Page One. But one Fuller story, a genuine exclusive about the Shrine, recently landed on the front page-and because of it, Shrine bigwigs last week indignantly invited Fuller to turn in his badge...
Nosing around his brothers in Detroit's Moslem Temple last January, Fuller, him self a past Potentate, picked up a hot fraternal tip: by decree of the Imperial Potentate of the Mystic Shrine of North America, two Detroit officers, Illustrious Potentate Herbert E. Payne Jr. and Chief Rabban J. Murray Brown, had been suspended for unfraternal conduct. By Shrine standards, their sins were grievous: Payne had "mishandled a recent Temple business session"; and Brown had allowed "unauthorized persons to sign contracts for the annual Shrine circus" in Detroit...
Some Detroit Shriners turned out to be less outraged at such peccadilloes than at the man who got them in the newspaper: Walter Fuller. And before long, from the throne in Lincoln, Neb., Imperial Potentate Clayton F. Andrews delivered an imperial decree. Charging Fuller with "conduct unbecoming a Noble," Andrews commanded Newsman Fuller to "show cause why you should not be disciplined or suspended as a Noble of the Mystic Shrine." Journalist Fuller manfully stuck to his guns. "My first duty," he said, "is to the News." But he was hurt and perplexed...
Under the heading "They Wounded a Friend," he pointed out in his column that "February is Brotherhood Month." Continued Fuller: "What is this thing called brotherhood, indeed? Whatever has become of the 'do unto others' bit? All I can say, following accusations against me, is that 'My head is bloody but unbowed.' Then, as a quote for MY day let me turn to Zechariah 13:6 with this: I was wounded in the house of my friends...