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...Pantagraph's present publisher, six-foot Loring "Bud" Merwin, is a fourth generation descendant of old Jesse Fell. Many newsmen consider his prairie daily one of the best-run small papers (circ. 32,000) in the U.S. For its wealthy rural readers, the Pantagraph runs more farm news than Prairie Farmer, backs its "clean and consistent record of internationalism" with full coverage of world affairs. (Adlai Stevenson, another Fell descendant and minority stockholder of the Pantagraph, is a U.S. Alternate Delegate to U.N.) Politically the Pantagraph has never hesitated to shuck its normal Republicanism when a Democrat looked better...
Harvardman Merwin knows the value of gossip for a farmland paper (two-thirds of the Pantagraph's circulation is outside of Bloomington-pop. 34,000), keeps 95 reporters, mostly women, feeding it in from as many Illinois small towns. But his local reporting doesn't stop with box socials and births. He once used the Pantagraph to promote one of the best art shows ever held in the Midwest, proved that Illinois farmers by the thousand would pay two bits to see an El Greco...
Upton Close, pompous radiocaster, Anglophobe, labor-baiter, Red-baiter, whose radio punditing deals as often with fancy as with fact; Merwin K. Hart, insurance lawyer, author, lecturer, admirer of Franco's Spain and scorner of the word "democracy," who once declared: "Tougher products result from a Fascist education"; John T. Flynn, writer, vitriolic and acid-tongued spearhead of the prewar, now defunct, America First Committee...
...Davis Merwin...
Varsity: stroke and captain, Schultz Wood, Jr. '45; Dick Hunneman, Jr. '46; 6, Gus Merwin '45; 5, Ted Chadwick, Jr. '45; 5, Nick Viek '46; 3, Bill Stilles '46; 2, Charlie Brown, Jr. '45; bow, John Potter '45; cox Al Petite...