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Many an Illinois daily considered the story front-page news. A six-year-old boy in Normal, Ill., had disappeared, and divers were brought in from Chicago to plumb an ice-covered gravel pit that the child usually crossed on the way home from school. But the Bloomington Pantagraph (circ. 39,384) last week steadfastly played the story on page 3. Reason: it was local news (Bloomington and Normal are twin cities), and the Pantagraph never uses local stories on the front page...
...Pantagraph's strange ban has been in force so long that no one on the paper remembers when it began, or why. Some say it dates from the 1880s, when, for the first time, regular word of extra-Bloom-ington events came stuttering in over the newfangled press service telegraph and-in Bloomington, anyway-took a greedy grip on Page One. Today the sight of a local story on the front page would perturb editor and reader both...
...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...
...Bloomington (111.) Pantagraph, Adlai Stevenson's family newspaper, reversed its 1952 position and endorsed Stockholder Stevenson. Explained the independent Pantagraph: in 1952 Stevenson was sponsored by an entrenched Truman Administration, but "today he is a free man ... in no way obligated to the New Deal, the Fair Deal, or any other deal...
...Nieman Fellows, who will be on leave of absence from their newspapers, are Lewis, former Managing Editor of the CRIMSON and presently a reporter for the Washington Bureau of the New York Times; Harold V. Liston, city editor of the Daily Pantagraph in Bloomington. Ill.; and Robert F. Campbell, editorial writer of the Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel...