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Martin graduated from DePauw (Ind.) University in 1937, was only a cub reporter on the Indianapolis Times when he cracked the freelance market with a $150 sale to the old Ken for an article on Dictator Trujillo of the Dominican Republic. After 20 years in the business, Martin can now pick his subjects and markets, draws top rates ($15,000 for the desegregation pieces). Meticulous and unhurried, he often writes first drafts 1,000 pages long, delights in the freedom of freelancing that has driven many another writer back to the certainty of the payroll. Says he: "I resist...
Eden Congregational Church Muncie, Ind...
...Hire. Strikebreaker Bloor Schleppey (Bloor was his mother's maiden name*) was born in Crawfordsville, Ind., got a law degree from Indiana University in 1912, then broke into the newspaper business in 1916 on the short-lived Milwaukee Daily News (Schleppey claims he was managing editor; oldtimers remember him as a reporter). In the next years, Schleppey worked for the New York World and the New Orleans Times-Picayune, put in a term as a Washington reporter for the Hearst chain. In 1934 he went to work for the Indianapolis Publishers Association and started his career as a labor...
Richmond, Ind...
Name Dropper. In Gary, Ind., Peter Mandich, candidate for the Democratic nomination for Lake County sheriff, complained to the election board that his opponent. Peter Mandich, was capitalizing on his name...