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...home state of Wyoming, Publisher Tracy S. (for Stephenson) McCraken, 60. is Mr. Big. Publisher McCraken (rhymes with taken) not only puts out seven of Wyoming's ten dailies; he also controls three radio stations, is the main stockholder of Cheyenne's best-known hotel, the Plains, is a bank director, vice president of the University of Wyoming board of trustees, and a Democratic National Committeeman...
Last week Publisher McCraken, one of the most successful small-newspaper owners in the U.S., spread his influence even further. In Cheyenne he put into operation the state's first television transmitter...
...McCraken's monopoly position in the state is often a target for critics, but he has a ready answer. "No one is entitled to any market," says he, "unless he can put out the best product." In Wyoming his product is indisputably the best. His Northern Wyoming Daily News in Worland (pop. 4,202) is one of the few newspapers in the U.S. with a larger circulation (4,276) than the population of the town in which it is published...
...early 1937 Publisher McCraken's 10,000 paid circulation equaled that of the Tribune and Eagle advertising had the edge 2-to-1. Then Tribune Publisher Deming sold out February 1 to Alfred G. Hill, publisher of the Fort Collins (Colo.) Express-Courier. But by August 1 Publisher Hill was ready to consolidate with the Eagle. Highly pleased, Publisher McCraken popped his paper from his dingy building into the superior Tribune plant...
...winning fight in Cheyenne had not kept both of Publisher McCraken's hands busy. Between 1927 and 1932 he had bought and made daily tabloids of the weekly Newcastle News-Letters and Rock Springs Rocket. These followed the pattern of the Eagle: breezy style, plenty of comics, big, black type and Democratic politics. To keep his papers on their toes, Publisher McCraken made each local manager a part owner...