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...Phoenix's jointly-owned Arizona-Republic and Gazette dropped to tabloid size on Tuesdays and Saturdays, to save enough paper to be standard-sized the rest of the week. The tab editions will carry no display ads except for movies and churches...
...first issue succeeded surprisingly well, though cattlemen may scratch their heads over such lines as: "It was that they were there that held distances off"; and Londoners will probably be unmoved by the fact that the Owl Drug Store in Phoenix now stands where the Central Methodist Church used to. But both Londoner and cattleman should enjoy Neil E. Cook's recollections of embracing a girl in a steel-stayed corset: "like putting your arm around a bunch of lath...
...Yankee bosses brimmed with dollars and ideas. Supplying a heavy piece of change was slender, soft-spoken Del Webb, ex-minor-league pitcher who 16 years ago moved to Phoenix, Ariz., parlayed a saw and hammer into a million-dollar construction business. The other big moneyman was Marine Corps Captain Dan Topping, heir to a tin-plate fortune and owner of the Brooklyn Football Tigers.* The man with the ideas was baseball's brilliant screwball, redheaded Colonel Leland Stanford ("Larry") MacPhail -who aging ex-Boss Ed Barrow once said would buy the Yankees "over my dead body...
...Learns about War. Farm-born in New Mexico's Sacramento Mountains, Bill Mauldin started drawing when he was three. At eight, he moved with his mother and brother to a homestead near Phoenix, Ariz., at nine wrote an anti-war poem. He got his first job as an artist at twelve, drawing posters for a rodeo. While in high school at Phoenix, he took a correspondence course in cartooning, sold his first cartoon for $10. He left high school without graduating, went to Chicago, worked variously as a truck driver, dishwasher and menu designer to pay for his studies...
Land Dilemma. In the midst of the blitz, Winston Churchill had heartened Britons with the promise that their ruined cities would rise "beautiful, resplendent, Phoenix-like from the ashes of the dead." Since then, the cities and towns had been busy turning hopes into blueprints. Before the House was the Government's proposal for translating the blueprints and Churchill's promises into buildings...