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...nation's largest newspaper chains is one of its least known, and the man who built it was a stranger in most of the 17 cities his 22 newspapers serve. Practicing maxims taught him by his mother, Frank Gannett fashioned a newspaper empire but declined ever to be its emperor (though he did want to be President of the U.S.). For how he lived, and died, see PRESS, The Chain That...
Certainly the South has no monopoly on racial prejudice, and a Harlem makes almost as poor an impression as does a Little Rock. The significant step the nation's largest city has taken in breaking down racial barriers should prove a healthy example here and abroad...
...SHIPBUILDING ORDER will be placed by U.S. Steel Corp.'s Pittsburgh Steamship Division, which plans to spend about $100 million on twelve 20,000-to 25,000-ton Great Lakes ore carriers, several of which would outstrip the largest iron-ore ship now on the lakes-M. A. Hanna Co.'s 23,000-ton George M. Humphrey...
...Robert B. Riss, 31, resigned as president of Riss & Co., third largest U.S. over-the-road truck line, was replaced by his father, Richard R. Riss, 54, who founded the family-owned corporation in 1930, got out of the presidency in 1950 to turn to other pursuits (real estate, cigar business, oil leases). University of Kansas-educated Bob Riss, who once said candidly, "It's much easier to climb the ladder of success if your father owns the ladder," took over the presidency at 23, decided to withdraw after his self-made, hard-driving father began stepping back...
Some reading is best done with closed eyes. That, at any rate, is the contention of the record industry, which this season has pressed the largest number of disks in history dedicated to " the "books that talk." The spoken word most effectively fires the powder train of the imagination in excerpts from such classics as Shakespeare and the Bible, but confirmed audiles can find plenty of esoteric items, ranging from a cozy chat with a prostitute ("It's no kind of life for anybody") in Cast the First Stone (Dolphin) to the singsong incantations of drugged natives ("Chjon...