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George Docking, the genial, 53-year-old governor of Kansas, and his wife Virginia had just finished a rousing round of duplicate bridge and a lively tournament post-mortem of the play over coffee and ice cream in the Hotel Kansan snackshop, the Purple Cow. It was past midnight in Topeka as Democrat Docking paid the bill, escorted Virginia to his state-owned Cadillac outside, helped her into the car, slid into the driver's seat and purred off into the night...
Actually, it took an American to beat the Americans. G. E. Putnam, a giant displaced Kansan, a Rhodes scholar at Oxford, won the hammer for the only British win in this event, which was dropped after the following meet...
...surrounding region's only morning paper, the Topeka Daily Capital (circ. 64,304), which since 1941 has shared presses, quarters and business departments with Stauffer's own Topeka afternoon paper, the State Journal (circ. 23,471). Also in the package: another daily, the Kansas City Kansan (circ. 29,583), six farm periodicals, two national magazines, Capper's Farmer (circ. 1,462,513) and Household (circ. 2,578,797), plus Topeka's radio and TV station WIBW and Kansas City's radio station KCKN...
...buying Capper Publications Inc., Publisher Stauffer was prompted by signs that his empire may prove a dynasty. Son John, 28, is editor of the family's Newton Kansan; Stanley, 36, who was publisher of the Santa Maria (Calif.) Times for five years, is assistant publisher of the Topeka State Journal and in line to succeed his father...
...Arkansas City (Kans.) Traveler, Grand Island (Neb.) Independent, Independence (Mo.) Examiner, Maryville (Mo.) Daily Forum, Nevada (Mo.) Daily Mail, Newton (Kans.) Kansan, Pittsburg (Kans.) Headlight and Sun, Santa Maria (Calif.) Times, Shawnee (Okla.) News Star, Topeka (Kans.) State Journal, York (Neb.) News-Times, and stations KSOK, Arkansas City, Kans., KSEK, Pittsburg, Kans., KGFF, Shawnee, Okla. † For other news of the President's birthplace, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...