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...absence from their newspapers, are Lewis, former Managing Editor of the CRIMSON and presently a reporter for the Washington Bureau of the New York Times; Harold V. Liston, city editor of the Daily Pantagraph in Bloomington. Ill.; and Robert F. Campbell, editorial writer of the Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel...
...Reverse Switch. The Falstaff Brewing Corp. of St. Louis got into trouble late last year, after it bought for one of its Negro salesmen a $500 life membership in the N.A.A.C.P. on the theory that it would help him in his dealings with Negro customers. The White Sentinel, a sewer sheet published in St. Louis by John Hamilton, an ex-Communist, printed a photograph of Falstaff's Vice President Karl Vollmer handing the check to an N.A.A.C.P. official. Squawked the White Sentinel: "When you drink Falstaff beer, you are aiding the integration and mongrelization of America." White Sentinel copies...
...from Milwaukee. Brownie did not name a new managing editor for the Trib; he did not need one. When he became boss last month, onto the paper came Frank Taylor, longtime ad and promotion man on Seattle newspapers and former publisher of Hearst's Milwaukee Sentinel. Trib staffers thought that Taylor was coming in primarily on the business side. But Executive Vice President Taylor quickly set them straight...
Jerry has been hanging up his own kind of fishing records for years. Last summer at the Wisconsin State Fair, he hooked ten in ten minutes (prize: a week's vacation). In last year's Sentinel show he won a $2,500 log cabin (which he traded to an uncle for a 1951 Ford convertible), plus a week's canoe trip and another vacation at a northern Wisconsin resort where he and a pal caught 72 wall-eyed pike in 3½ days...
...Sentinel's 1955 show, after a week of watching him work their pond, the authorities finally decided that Jerry was a public nuisance, and refused to sell him another ticket. Jerry's father, who had been serving the boy's catch at his New Colony Inn in Milwaukee, promptly got a court order restraining the show from barring his son. But the sport show managers still refused to let Jerry cast another fly. Before Jerry was banned, he had already caught more than 100 trout. Prizes: a five-day Las Vegas vacation, plus three one-week vacations...