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Thus last week ended one of the least glorious competitions in newspaper history. When three brothers, Max, John and Louis Levand, took over the Beacon in 1928, they introduced a style of journalistic alley fighting that the rival Eagle had never seen before. Goaded to fury, Eagle Publisher Marcellus M. Murdock replied in kind. The contest quickly degenerated into a nasty feud waged in the pages of the Beacon and Eagle with such bitterness that there rarely seemed room for legitimate news. The Eagle squandered news columns on insinuations that the Levands were chiselers; the Levands, who are Jewish, periodically...
...making up its lost ground, now has a combined daily circulation of 183,191. In recent years, the Beacon has lost money steadily, and at last the surviving Levand brother, John, 69, let it be known that the paper was for sale. Among the buyers attracted was Eagle Publisher Marcellus Murdock, 77. Last week Murdock acquired the Beacon for $900,000 cash and assumption of the Beacon's debts-about...
...Levand, who had learned the newspaper business under Publishers Frederick Bonfils and Harry Tammen in the carnival atmosphere (1895-1933) of the Denver Post. The Levands jazzed up the Beacon's copy, said that they would run the Eagle off the streets. The Eagle, under Publisher Marcellus Murdock, fought back with talons rather than talent, screaming: "Since the Levands came here ... a new word has come into use in Wichita's life. That word is chisel...
...threatening to publish photographs of solid citizens surprised by Beacon photographers in compromising situations. The Eagle wrote balefully of "the threat of Levand influence," went out of its way to talk about "Max Levand of the Wichita Beacon, who owes the Government nearly $10,000 in taxes." When Marcellus Murdock's daughter went East and married a Jew, the Eagle said nothing, but the Beacon told about it in all too enthusiastic detail. When a girl staffer at the Beacon shot herself, the Eagle tried to associate a Levand with the case. A rumor that a Murdock relative...
Theologian J. Marcellus Kik recently wrote a parody on Tillich and Bultmann entitled "The King's Existential Garments"-with apologies to Hans Christian Andersen...