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...paper chain; of a ruptured abdominal aorta; in Cheyenne. A veteran Democratic national committeeman, McCraken cast the 15 Wyoming votes that gave Kennedy the nomination at the Democratic Convention, two weeks ago declined to fill a U.S. Senate vacancy, caused by the death of Republican Keith Thomson, because "I love newspapering...
Died. Keith Thomson, 41, Republican Senator-elect from Wyoming, who would have been the first man in the state's history to move up from the House of Representatives (where he was Wyoming's lone delegate for six years); of a heart attack; in Cody, Wyo. The youngest infantry battalion commander on the Italian front in World War II, Thomson forged an equally successful civilian career as a lawyer, rancher and businessman, as a politician belonged to Senator Barry Goldwater's conservative school...
...Canadian named Roy Thomson has become an international press lord without peer or precedent (TIME, Nov. 14). Beginning in 1934 with a back-country Canadian newspaper, Businessman Thomson has quietly forged a chain of 76 newspapers (including London's prestigious Sunday Times) in six countries. Last week, round, rosy and insatiable, Thomson laid out $5,500,000 to add five new links to his chain in still another country: Northern Ireland...
...money, Thomson acquires a five-sixths interest in the venerable, liberal Belfast Telegraph (circ. 196,000), biggest and best daily in Northern Ireland's overcrowded field, plus the Belfast Weekly Telegraph, the daily Telegraph's international edition, which circulates to Irishmen round the world. The deal also includes Ireland Saturday Night, a prosperous sports magazine with 100,000 subscribers, and two other thriving Irish weeklies...
...Thomson also announced an impending expansion of his beachhead in Africa, where he recently bought a half interest in a Nigerian newspaper chain. Provided he gets a go-ahead from Emperor Haile Selassie ("who seemed very responsive"), Thomson intends to establish an Ethiopian news agency and two Ethiopian dailies-one in English and one in Amharic. And in partnership with the youthful Aga Khan, he is laying plans for five new papers in Uganda, Kenya and Tanganyika...