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...routine handling brought a roar of protest from liquor dealers, amazed at the gullibility of Eugene C. Pulliam's* Republic. The letter, they said, was a fake, a rewrite of old prohibitionist propaganda that had been planted in the Republic as part of the drys' campaign to put over a local option law backed, added the wets, by Oklahoma bootleggers anxious to expand their business...
...Harry Pulliam Cain, Republican from Washington, 44, tall, lean, friendly-and a lightweight. As early as 1947, he urged withdrawal of occupation forces from Germany, and an end to the denazification program. On occasion, he subjects the Senate to hammy theatrics and wild filibusters. Some of his Senate colleagues would be inclined to rate him as no more than a noisy nonentity if he were not something more bothersome-the real-estate lobby's warmest friend...
Many a big-time publisher dropped around to take an appraising look. But last week it was a neighbor who went to the rescue. In a reorganization and stock transfer, Eugene Collins Pulliam bought control of the afternoon News (circ. 173,000), and merged it with his profitable morning Star (181,000). He will merge everything but the news gathering staff...
With Indiana's two biggest dailies in his hands, ex-Police Reporter Pulliam, an energetic behind-the-scene GOPoliticker, became a major publisher (he owns the Phoenix Gazette and Arizona-Republic, papers in Muncie, Vincennes, Huntington and Lebanon, and two radio stations). In Indianapolis, his paper's circulation outnumbers Roy Howard's afternoon Times (circ. 91,000). Last week, Howard said that the merger gave his Times "added responsibilities [which] we are fully prepared to meet." One possibility: a Scripps-Howard Sunday Times to do battle with Pulliam's Sunday Star...
Dance group--Katherine Boardman '49, Abelle Dinkowitz '49, Mary Pulliam Hatton '49, Sylvia Larrabee '49, Mary-Gray Sweezey '49, Elaine Kaufman '50, Sally Flett '51, Rayna Klatzkin '51, Mary Pennebaker...