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...successful war without having to fight." But. he added, "only an invasion, and an invasion only in the first days before the casualty lists come in. would satisfy the emotions of the war whoopers.'' Taking the lead in whooping it up, charged Lippmann, were Republican Publisher Eugene Pulliam's right-wing dailies, the Arizona Republic and the Phoenix Gazette...
...Pulliam wasted no time replying, "We do not advocate an invasion or an occupation," said he in a letter that ran in the Washington Post two days after Lippmann's column appeared. What he wanted all along, said Pulliam, was "a forceful American policy, aimed at Castro's isolation and eventual overthrow" by partial blockade or quarantine. "The day President Kennedy proclaimed the American quarantine last October, we wrote that the Russians would accept it, while a lot of 'liberal' commentators, including Mr. Lippmann, expected the Russians to 'challenge' the American Navy...
...paper. Publisher (and onetime Arizona attorney general) Robert Morrison, 53, raised $1,500,000. But merely getting born took all but $100,000 of that. By the time the paper produced its first issue-which came out eight hours late-the Journal was already suffering from malnutrition. Eugene Pulliam, whose two conservative dailies blanket Phoenix,* contemptuously ignored the newcomer. And, after a while, so did many of the people who had shared Bob Morrison's conviction that a liberal paper could survive in Gene Pulliam's desert fief. From a starting 50,000, circulation dropped...
...Pulliam also publishes the Indianapolis News and the Star back home in Indiana...
Unwrapping the Past. In Phoenix, the nursling Journal faces tough competition from Eugene C. Pulliam's aggressive Republic, with its competent, extensive news coverage and its sustained interest in Phoenix' phenomenal growth. Despite this, and despite the Journal's ignominious 'and painful birth.- the new daily has a better-than-even chance at life. It is the most highly automated and potentially the most economical daily newspaper operation in the world; and, even though Phoenix has two dailies, the morning Republic (circ. 132,132) and the evening Gazette (79,064), both owned by Pulliam, the expanding...