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When Kansas-born Eugene C. Pulliam in 1948 added the Indianapolis News to his string of newspapers,* the News lacked an editor. Pulliam did not mind. He sets overall editorial policy anyway-on a bearing somewhat to the right of Warren Gamaliel Harding. Last week, after twelve years, the editor's chair at the News finally had a tenant. "I've been looking for years to find a man like him." chortled Gene Pulliam, 71. "I've combed the whole goddam country. There are lots of good journalists around, but they're all cockeyed left-wingers...
...press-for the government happened to be celebrating the occasion by clapping 72-year-old Ahmed Emin Yalman, dean of Turkish newsmen (TIME, Jan. 18), into jail for violating the oppressive national press laws. His crime: reprinting in his daily Vatan (Nation) articles by U.S. Newspaper Tycoon Eugene C. Pulliam (the Indianapolis Star, nine other papers) that "belittled" Premier Adnan Menderes. For that, Yalman began a 15½-month sentence in Uskudar prison on the Asiatic side of the Bosphorus...
...crimes for which Turkish newsmen are jailed would be considered fair editorial treatment in any other democracy. Editor Balcioglu was jugged for reprinting part of a story by U.S. Newspaper Publisher Eugene C. Pulliam (the Indianapolis Star, nine other papers), who, after a 1958 visit to Turkey, called the Premier a poor administrator and a conceited man. Tune Yalman, subeditor of Vatan and son of its publisher, was sentenced to prison for writing that the "government is uncultural...
...choice but to use force to preserve the integrity of the nation (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), several influential dailies outside the South looked at Eisenhower's motives with a new brand of cynicism that lacked even the compulsion of Southern war wounds. Indiana's biggest paper, Eugene C. Pulliam's right-wing Indianapolis Star, accused the President of "a deliberate effort to placate the Negro vote." The ordinarily all-for-Ike Los Angeles Times took the opportunity to indict the Supreme Court for practicing "sociology" and sniffed that the President seemed to have decided on the Little Rock...
...regards newspaper chains, the survey yielded the following: the Block chain came off well; the Scripps-Howard rather poorly; the Knight, Pulliam and McCormick badly; the Cowles very badly; and the Hearst worst...