Word: pulliam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Paul Pulliam...
Died. Eugene C. Pulliam, 86, conservative publisher of the Arizona Republic, the Indianapolis Star and several other newspapers; of a stroke; in Phoenix. Once a hustling young reporter for the Kansas City Star, at 23 he became editor and publisher of the Atchison Champion in Kansas and began building an empire that at one time or another included 46 papers...
Eugene S. Pulliam, the Star's assistant publisher, reluctantly acknowledges that there are limits to a newspaper's role in battling corruption. "Our reporters are getting pretty damn frustrated," he says. "We are convinced that there are crooks there. But we can't subpoena, we can't grant immunity, and we can't indict. All we can do is report...
Editors and publishers are not laughing. Some news executives indeed agree that biased liberals bent on vengeance are using Watergate to bring down an old foe. That is the view, for instance, of Eugene C. Pulliam (Arizona Republic, Phoenix Gazette, Indianapolis Star), Franklin B. Smith (Burlington, Vt, Free Press) and William Loeb (Manchester, N.H., Union Leader...
...force has been an open Secret in Indianapolis for years. Lugar says that "in my six years we've removed ten people from the police department, and this is not an easy thing to do." The Star has made it easier for the mayor, and Assistant Publisher Pulliam thinks that the series may even boost Lugar's election chances: "It has given him name recognition he never had before...