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Teaming with left wing Cunliffe and Mather in the starting line is captain Ralph Warburton, making his final appearance in a Dartmouth uniform before graduation and a trip to Europe with an AAU hockey team. Jeremiah will have his two huskies, 28-year-old Soup Campbell and George Pulliam at the opening defense spots, with goalie Dick Desmond in the nets. Pulliam and Campbell are both vicious body checkers...
Restless, acquisitive Eugene C. Pulliam, a onetime police reporter on the Kansas City Star, has always hankered to be a big publisher. Since 1917 he has bought 43 midwest papers, sold 35 of them. Mostly the deals were just for practice, but he was playing for keeps when he bought control of the Indianapolis Star (for $2,500,000) in 1944. Last week Publisher Pulliam, a crew-cropped six-footer, pulled his biggest deal of all. In bustling Phoenix (Ariz.) he bought the Republic (circ. 56,810) and Gazette (33,494), a money-making mo- nopoly. Price: $4.000,000 cash...
Under their previous owners, the Phoenician twins had tried to work both sides of the street in heavily Democratic Arizona, although they obviously preferred the Republican side. Kansas-born Gene Pulliam likes that side, too; in Indianapolis he has been an active GOPromoter. As secretary-treasurer of his new Phoenix Newspapers, Inc., he listed "N. G. Mason," who is Mrs. Naomi Mason Pulliam. "Nina" Pulliam was his secretary for 15 years, has been his wife for five, once ran his Indianapolis radio station, WIRE...
Last week control of the Star, for close to $2,500,000, went to none of these. The buyer was tall, crew-cropped Eugene Collins Pulliam, 55, identified more with Hoosier radio than with newspapers (although he publishes the Vincennes Sun Commercial, the Huntington Herald-Press, the Lebanon Reporter...
...same deal, Pulliam got the other Shaffer paper, the Muncie Star (circ. 24,821). Indianapolis buzzed anew with reports that Marshall Field's bank roll was behind Publisher Pulliam. It was not. Big, beaming Smith Davis, Cleveland newspaper broker, had arranged and so hidden the deal that no one had seriously suspected Pulliam...