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"Passionate Believer." Jack Knight inherited the Akron Beacon-Journal from his father. He has achieved an Akron monopoly by absorbing his Scripps-Howard competitor, gone on to acquire the Detroit Free Press and the Miami Herald. The three papers operate independently of one another. Knight is currently among those most...
For Almost Everybody. Western Newspaper Union (it has some 10,000 small-newspaper customers) bought the weekly Pyle syndicate rights from Scripps-Howard's United Feature Syndicate. W.N.U., limited to territories where there is no conflict with Pyle-carrying dailies, expects that Pyle will soon be printed by at...
Ernie Pyle, Scripps-Howrard Newspaper Alliance war correspondent, famed for his reporting of the human side of the Tunisian and Italian campaigns;
The New York World-Telegram, the Cleveland Press and other Scripps-Howard papers omitted the Pegler column attacking Colonel Knox. Other Pegler subscribers, with no such well-timed kill order, ran the column. Secretary Knox died next day.
One of Westbrook Pegler's sponsors as a national columnist was Secretary Frank Knox's Chicago Daily News (until three years ago it shared Pegler's basic syndicate contract with Scripps-Howard's New York World-Telegram). Recently the Daily News has omitted many Pegler columns...