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Died. Harry Johnston Grant, 81, publisher of the Milwaukee Journal, one of the biggest (circ. 361,875) and most prosperous dailies, a onetime textileman who took over from Lucius Nieman in 1919 and made the Journal the chronicle of Beertown, ordering exhaustive local and national coverage, extreme independence (leading liberals to damn it as too conservative, while Wisconsin's late Senator McCarthy dubbed it "the Milwaukee edition of the Worker"), saw his paper play a major role in giving Milwaukee the Braves and one of the nation's lowest crime rates; after a long illness; in Milwaukee...