Who would buy the fat, conservative Indianapolis Star with its morning (circ. 128,959) and Sunday (circ. 189,963) monopoly? Since the death, six months ago, of the paper's owner-publisher, John Charles Shaffer, various buyers have been mentioned: Marshall Field, Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, the Cowles brothers of Des Moines and Minneapolis, Roy Wilson Howard.
Last week control of the Star, for close to $2,500,000, went to none of these. The buyer was tall, crew-cropped Eugene Collins Pulliam, 55, identified more with Hoosier radio than with newspapers (although he publishes the Vincennes Sun Commercial, the...
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