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Grey Heads. In appearance and content, today's Star closely resembles the paper founded 79 years ago by William Rockhill Nelson, a migrant Indiana contractor. The Star was and is interested in Kansas City, in Missouri, the Prairie States, the Midwest, the U.S., and the world, in just that order. It has two staffers in Washington, one in New York and one in Paris, but it has three in Independence, Mo. and five in Johnson County, Kans. Says Roy Roberts: "We take care of home base first...
...problems. In recent years, as mounting costs forced the subscription rate up, both papers suffered the circulation loss inevitable in a rural area where thrift-conscious farmers are inclined to drop the big-city paper rather than pay more. Together, the Star and the Times have 671,188 subscribers today, down some 40,000 since 1949. Staffers wonder, too, who will take over when Roy Roberts decides to retire. His key editors have worked long years in his shadow; behind him stands no one groomed to take his place...
...What I have to say today," said the guest speaker, Robert H. Estabrook, 42, editorial page director of the Washington Post and Times Herald, "won't be quite so harmonious as the tunes from the massed Michigan bands." Thus forewarned, the assembled journalism students at the University of Michigan sat back to listen to some exceptionally frank criticism of the U.S. daily press...
Soda Pop & Slocks. "The poor working class no longer exists in England today," says Donald Tyerman, editor of London's Economist. The so-called proletariat that was the bulwark of socialism and Communism is giving way to an immensely enlarged middle class, intent on acquiring all the trappings of affluence. One excellent measure is autos. U.S. Businessman Arthur Watson, boss of IBM World Trade Corp., found the change astounding. Eleven years ago the manager of IBM's big plant at Essonnes, France asked Watson for permission to build a shed to house the workers' bicycles; two years...
...lifelong dialogue with his fellow Americans on their democratic destiny ("In those wretched Countries where a Man cannot call his Tongue his own, he can scarce call any Thing else his own"). But entertainment always had priority on instruction. None of the humor would draw a belly laugh today, though it was probably uproarious at the time; e.g., "We are informed that one Piles a Fidler, with his Wife, were overset in a Canoo near Newtown Creek. The good Man, 'tis said, prudently secur'd his Fiddle, and let his Wife go to the Bottom...