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...influence. His paternal grandfather, after whom he was named, was Vice President during Grover Cleveland's second term. His maternal great grandfather, Jesse Fell, was a close friend of Abraham Lincoln, helped arrange the Lincoln-Douglas debates. His mother's family owned the prosperous Bloomington, Ill., Daily Pantagraph, and his father managed the Stevenson family's vast farm lands, later became Illinois' secretary of state...
...your report [March 2] which chides the Pantagraph (and its readers) for carrying world, national and state news on Page One, leaving local news for page three: the Pantograph's departmentalization of news may be unusual among standards adopted "by daily newspapers, but it is the pattern followed by weekly TIME in giving its intelligent readers the news...
...Pantagraph readers overwhelmingly endorse this policy of news departmentalization. Speaking for the Pantagraph (and its readers), we say to TIME: "Suum cuique...
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...then a careless Pantagraph printer may space out a short front-page column with a local item, but no printer commits the sin twice. Besides Frank Starzel, about the only Pantagraph editor to break the Page One rule was Adlai E. Stevenson, one of the five grandchildren and heirs of the late Pantagraph publisher William O. Davis. During a short hitch as assistant managing editor years ago, Stevenson (who is still a major stockholder in the Pantagraph) dared to put an area story-of a southern Illinois tornado -on the front page...