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After supporting Adlai Stevenson in the last election the Editorial board of the Daily Kansan, in Laurence, Kansas was discharged under continuing Alumni pressure. The former student editorial board was replaced with a joint student faculty staff. The change was made, according to the Chancellor of the Journalism School, in order to preserve, "a more consistent editorial policy." This was the first time the "consistency" of the Kansan had been a cause of complaint...
Malott further complicated the situation by making a statement on November 23 in a long-distance telephone conversation to the city editor of the Kansan, daily of the University of Kansas. Malott was president of that University prior to his post at Cornell. He announced that his remarks had not been meant for publication...
Dark Morning. For its rosy glow, Sunset can thank the super-salesmanship of a rangy Kansan named Laurence William ("Larry") Lane, 61. In the '20s, Lane was ad manager for Meredith Publications (Better Homes & Gardens) when he came across Sunset, then a money-losing literary magazine with about 60,000 readers. Lane bought Sunset for $60,000, and turned it into a regional how-to-do-it magazine on gardening, building, decorating, food, travel, etc. Sunset ignored Hollywood, fashions and the movies. Says Lane: "We couldn't compete with the national magazines on things like movies, and they...
...engineering at the University of Pittsburgh while working at Pittsburgh's Mellon Institute. At the institute, Reid did research for Union Carbide & Carbon Corp., after nine years' work on esters succeeded in producing Vinylite, the plastic now used for shower curtains, combs, etc. In 1943, Reid, a Kansan, joined Cora Products (maker of Karo syrup, Mazola oil, etc.) as a vice president, during the war served as chemicals boss...
PHILLIPS PETROLEUM : Paul Endacott, 49, a rangy Kansan, was an All-America basketball player (University of Kansas '23), was snagged by Phillips' famed Oilers team. He worked in the oilfields as an engineer, caught top management's eye by persuading Chrysler Corp. to be the first to convert a big plant's heating system to liquefied petroleum gases (e.g., butane), rose to head of sales research in 1934 (Phillips' 1950 gross: $534 million) and vice president...