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Newspaperman's Newspaper. Last week, plainly in need of stronger medicine, the Herald Tribune was about to get the biggest pick-me-up in its 116-year history (all accompanied by the adjectival drumbeating of Tex McCrary Inc., the radio-TV performer's public-relations outfit). Though it has owned the paper outright ever since Brownie's grandfather Whitelaw took over the old Tribune in 1872, the Reid family decided to reorganize its closed corporation as a Delaware stock company in order to bring in outside capital, lined up several potential investors. To London last week went...
...Minister, Tory John A. Macdonald (1867-73, 1878-91), liberally subsidized the Canadian Pacific Railroad to keep Canada from being served only by north-bound branch lines of U.S. railroads. Liberal C. D. Howe, a devoted private enterpriser, saw nothing strange in fathering a national airline and a national radio-TV network. When Liberals adopted baby bonuses, old-age pensions, a $100 million Canada Council to encourage culture, Conservatives generally approved. Tory Diefenbaker, in fact, promises higher pensions and fatter farm subsidies...
Oklahoma's burly, scrappy Robert Samuel Kerr is a Democratic multimillionaire (Kerr-McGee Oil) who snap-shoots from the hip when he hears a rustling in the brush. Indiana's jowled Homer Earl Capehart is a Republican millionaire (Capehart radio-TV) who usually prefers to wait for another day. Last week Snap-Shooter Bob pressed Hesitant Homer too far, and the Senate echoed with high-priced debate. Subject: Dwight Eisenhower's brains...
...Duluth Radio-TV Executive Dalton LeMasurier, 47, and his wife Dorothy, 45, were accustomed to traveling as they pleased, but this junket seemed even better than usual. Flying their own twin-engine Beechcraft, they had left Minnesota for Florida to arrange the return of their 62-ft. cabin cruiser Caprice (which they sailed south last fall), then visited a married daughter in El Paso. In Pasadena they visited their lonesome actor-son Ronald, treated him to a steak dinner. The following day they were homeward bound, leisurely droning the miles northeast across Wyoming's rugged mountains...
...morning last week, Jack Putnam, foreman of nearby Buzzard Ranch, rode his horse up Ferris Mountain. LeMasurier's radio-TV company in Duluth had offered a $2,500 reward for anyone who located the plane, and Putnam had a hunch. Late in the morning he spotted a tiny speck of silver high on the mountainside. He quickly reported his find, and an evacuation party was soon puffing its way up the rocky slope. Closing the summit, they heard a faint cry, at first thought it was an echo. Then they found Dorothy LeMasurier on a snowbank...