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...Kaplan thought that he could find a cheaper way. Last week Jack Kaplan, president of Welch Grape Juice Co., launched an experimental tabloid that may well blaze a trail for men who want to start small-town newspapers on comparatively small capital. He began publishing his paper in Middletown, N.Y. (pop. 22,586), pitting it against the well-established, conventional Times-Herald, which is owned by another newspaper experimenter, Ralph Ingersoll, founder and publisher of Manhattan's late pinko daily, PM. Proprietor Ingersoll's Times-Herald, which has none of the journalistic or political extremism...
...George W. Bengert, 57, became president of Norwich Pharmacal Co., succeeding Melvin C. Eaton, 65, son of a founder, who moved up to board chairman. Born in New Jersey and educated in the Middletown, N.Y. public schools, Bengert graduated from Columbia University in 1922, soon afterward joined Norwich as a research chemist, moved steadily up. Chemist Bengert's hobbies: driving a Thunderbird, working in the Boy Scouts and American Legion...
...varsity golf team had little trouble in gaining its second win of the season Saturday, disposing of a mediocre Wesleyan squad, 5 to 2, at Middletown...
School Daze. In Middletown, Ohio, Bob Boring, convicted of reckless driving, was ordered to attend four sessions of an auto school as part of the sentence, was arrested when he ran down a pedestrian while driving to his third class...
...Tender Trap. During the 1952 campaign, Lausche went on the road with a group of touring Democratic candidates. In Oxford, Hamilton and Middletown, he failed conspicuously to mention his platform companions a single time. On the way to the final meeting in Dayton, a freshman candidate for Congress sat next to Lausche in his car. "Governor," he said, "I'm new to politics, running for the first time. But it seems amazing to me the way you've been talking. I thought we were all in this together...