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...years ago the Levands found in Wichita a stage admirably set for their talents by the ancient bitterness between Senator Allen's Beacon (an evening paper) and the morning Eagle published by the brothers Victor and Marcellus Murdock. For years the Brothers Murdock had eyed the profitable afternoon field. On March 28, 1927 they sprung a surprise. An Evening Eagle, with bigger headines, blacker type and more pictures than Wichita had ever seen, burst upon the city unan- nounced. A crew of newsmen had been housed in a hotel where the first issue was prepared in dead secrecy...
...their Kansas City Post, where he remained 16 years. When the Kansas City Post was sold, Brother Max bought the Casper, Wyo. Herald, sent its circulation and advertising skyward, sold out, repeated the process with the St. Joseph, Mo. Gazette. When Henry Justin Allen wanted to sell his Wichita Beacon, Broth ers Louis and John joined Brother Max in buying 65% control for about...
...Levands' Beacon soon jolted Wichita like a battering ram. It sprouted all the loud, flamboyant labels of the Denver Post. It applied all the high-pressure business technique of the adroit and powerful Bonfils & Tammen. The Brothers Murdock at first affected to ignore the newcomers but rural Kansas editors have found that an almost certain way of getting themselves quoted in the Murdocks' Eagles is to take a crack at the (to them) unspeakable Levands. Some of these cracks, which the Brothers Levand say are "inspired" by the Brothers Murdock, are too much for even the Mur docks to reprint...
Trained to the ways of Jew-baiters, the Levands turn such comment to their own uses. Quickly it comes to the attention of such potent Wichita advertisers as Wal-lenstein-Raffman (department store) and Jack Spines (haberdasher...
...conversation the Levands affect an injured air. They say that whereas attacks against them are politically or racially motivated, they "are only trying to give Wichita a good paper." Latest official figures appear to support the Levands' claim, of having the biggest newspaper in Kansas...