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...Bloomington Pantograph, because everyone in those parts knew all about Abe. He wanted to forward copies of it to eastern papers, to get them interested in Lincoln for President. The Lincoln manuscript has never left the family's possession; neither has the newspaper. Last week the Pantagraph celebrated its 100th anniversary with an ad-fat, 156-page issue...
...Pantagraph's present publisher, six-foot Loring "Bud" Merwin, is a fourth generation descendant of old Jesse Fell. Many newsmen consider his prairie daily one of the best-run small papers (circ. 32,000) in the U.S. For its wealthy rural readers, the Pantagraph runs more farm news than Prairie Farmer, backs its "clean and consistent record of internationalism" with full coverage of world affairs. (Adlai Stevenson, another Fell descendant and minority stockholder of the Pantagraph, is a U.S. Alternate Delegate to U.N.) Politically the Pantagraph has never hesitated to shuck its normal Republicanism when a Democrat looked better...
Harvardman Merwin knows the value of gossip for a farmland paper (two-thirds of the Pantagraph's circulation is outside of Bloomington-pop. 34,000), keeps 95 reporters, mostly women, feeding it in from as many Illinois small towns. But his local reporting doesn't stop with box socials and births. He once used the Pantagraph to promote one of the best art shows ever held in the Midwest, proved that Illinois farmers by the thousand would pay two bits to see an El Greco...
...when Des Moines's Brothers John & Gardner Cowles Jr. paid $1,000,000 for the Star and hired their intimate friend Dave Merwin to run it, the Star's weak 80,000 circulation has been pushed to 135,000. Previously publisher of the strong little Bloomington (Ill.) Pantagraph which has been in his family 101 years, Dave Merwin made a place for the Star in Minneapolis largely by pointing his editorial finger at civic corruption. In two years the Star outstripped the circulation of its two evening rivals...
Slight, handsome Dave Merwin, 35, was something of a wild man, a jolly drinker, an able cartoonist, at Harvard. After college and a round-the-world trip, with tiger-hunting in Indo-China, he quieted down, succeeded his ailing uncle as publisher of the Pantagraph. A licensed transport pilot, he flies about in his orange-colored airplane called Scoop, loves to whisk his small son & daughter 100 miles or so for an ice cream soda. To the Cowles team. Publisher Merwin takes financial wizardry and a profound knowledge of all newspaper mechanical operations which both brothers lack...