Word: pantagraph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...Daily Pantagraph...
...Associated Press's General Manager Frank Starzel, who served as the Pantagraph's news editor 30 years ago, recalls the time he rendered a regional bank robbery nearly invisible-by playing it on Page One. Several veteran Pantagraph newsmen searched page 3 for the story, rebuked Starzel for failing to run it. The backward progress of another bank-robbery story was a capsule of the Pantagraph policy. Since the rifled bank lay outside Pantagraph territory, the news broke on Page One; as the bandits fled toward Bloomington the story fled to page 2 (area news); when police trapped...
...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...