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...year-old Indianapolis News, once published by Theodore Roosevelt's Vice President (Charles W. Fairbanks), was long the kingpin of the Hoosier press. James Whitcomb Riley and Kin Hubbard once graced its staff, and Press Lord Roy Howard, a home-town boy, got his first newspaper job at $4 a week. Lately, with rising costs and dwindling profits, the News needed a new building and new presses-and perhaps a new management...
Candidate Creighton looked just like what Indiana Republicans like: a native Hoosier, American Legionnaire, father of four, solid churchgoer (Evangelical United Brethren), a self-made rich...
...natives called it "Hoosier hysteria" or "Hoosier hoopla." All but three of Indiana's 782 public high schools-from little Raub High (student body: 18) to Indianapolis' Arsenal Tech (student body: 4,578)-were entered. The grown-ups took it more seriously than the kids. Farmers stopped working. Storekeepers closed up shop and went gallivanting off to watch their local heroes perform. Indiana's excitement was matched in Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota, where other state tourneys are in progress. In the Midwest last week it was easy to prove that basketball, the poor boy's game...
...will travel to Indianapolis this week for the finale in Butler University Fieldhouse. Despite the size of the gym (capacity: 15,028), not a ticket could be bought. Sponsors guessed that they could easily sell another 50,000 tickets. There was little or no ticket-scalping, because as one Hoosier put it: "It's just like selling your auto. Where're you going to get another...
Died. Kenneth Craven Hogate, 49, hefty Hoosier publisher of the Wall Street Journal, president of Barren's Publishing Co., chairman of Dow, Jones & Co., Inc. (financial ticker service), close friend and 1944 presidential campaign adviser of Thomas E. Dewey; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Palm Springs, Calif...