Tuesday, April 1, 1975
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University Daily Kansan
Ben Hibbs was journalistic giant
By JIM BATES Kansan Staff Reporter
When a young University of Kansas journalism graduate named Ben Hilbs went East in 1925 his eventual success was that he became a leading reputation as a journalist on newspapers like the Pratt Daily Union, but that didn't necessarily mean he would make it as an executive.
But Ben Hibbs, who died from leukemia
surete in Narburg, Pa., at the age of 73,
was a graduate of Cornell.
After leaving the Post in 1962, he served a senior editor of Reader's Digest until his retirement.
By 1942, Hibbs was editor-in-chief of the Saturday Evening Post, a position he held for 20 years. During this time he doubled the magazine's circulation to 6.5 million and converted it from a men's magazine to one that most popular mass circulation magazines.
A NATIVE KANSAN, Hibbs was born July 21, 1901 in Fontana and grew up in Pretty Prairie. He worked two years in his father's office to pay his way through the University.
Hibbs graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a BA in journalism in 1923. While at the University he was editor of the Kansan, and taught the English literature fraternity, Sigma Phi Epsilon social fraternity the KU Press Club, the Commons Advisory Board and the Kansan Board. He graduated with a near-perfect record, receiving only 10 hours of "B".
After graduation Hibbs spent one year as an instructor at the University before going on to work for a number of small area papers.
His first job as a newspaperman was on the Fort Morgan (Colo.) Times, a weekly that boasted a two man staff—Hibbs and the owner.
"I HAD MY pick of the titles left over," Hibbs had said later. "I was a news editor." Hibbs also taught journalism for two years at Fort Hays State College, and served as the first head of the college's journalism department, in his second year.
Hibbs conclu#t! his Kansas career as manager of editing the Arkansas City Daily Traveler from 1927 to 1929, when he moved to Philadelphia to work for the Curtis Publishing Co. as associate editor of the Country Gentleman magazine.
"Philadelphia is taking from us the whitehead boy of Kansas journalism," White wrote. "He is blessed with great talents. he is cursed by the little gnawed demon of industry which perches on his shoulder eighteen hours a day and digs it sharp teeth into his neck, driving him on to tremendous feats of work and enabling him to produce a number of stuff that are more stuff than any other man in the state."
THIRTY YEARS LATER, in 1959, Hibbs was given the William Allen White Foundation's national award for journalist merit.
White was not the only one who had noticed Hibb's departure.
"A young editor is allowing himself to be swallowed up by the greedy eastern press," the Leavenworth Times said. "His talents will be buried."
But Hibbs's salants were far from buried. His military was a major force in insurgency journalism.
the rost, although remaining a middle-American publication, was not afraid to cover important or controversial subjects during Hibbs's editorship. The magazine was among the first to use birth control in the United States, and was the first to serialize "The Ulysses American."
"WHEN WE REGARD a topic important," Hilbs once said, "we don't tuck it under the rug simply because some lawyer may make a muscle."
Hibbs also commissioned Norman Rockwell's paintings "The Four Freedoms" after Rockwell had been turned down by government officials in Washington.
Hibbs voluntarily retired in 1682 at the age of 60. His magazine needed a new cover. He donated $750.
Circulation declined after Hibbs left and the Post eventually folded in 1969. It has since been revived under different ownership.
Hibbs was a trustee of the William Allen White foundation and received distinguished service awards from the KU Alumni Association and Siirma Delta Chi.
HE RECEIVED honorary doctor's degrees from Southwestern College at Winfield, Northwestern University at University and Temple University at Philadelphia.
He also received the National Education Association's National School Bell Award and the George Washington Honor Medal for the Freedom's Foundation at Valley Forge.
Mr. Hibbs is survived by his wife, Edith Doty; a, son, Stephen D. Hibbs, Hawertown, Pa.; a sister, Mrs. C. R. Singleton, Sylvia; and three granddaughters.
A fire at 6:33 a.m. Monday caused $20,000 damage to the home of Michael Johnson, 3016 Sagebrush, according to Lawrence Fire Department investigators.
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Johnson, his wife and two guests were asleep when the fire began, but escaped injury.
Larry Stemmerman, Lawrence fire investigator, said a spark from the home's fire place may have caused the blaze. The fire burned about 30 minutes before firemen arrived, he said, and it took about 20 minutes to bring it under control.
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Memorial services for Mr. Hibbs will be a 2 p.m. Wednesday in the First Presbyterian Church in Ardmore, Pa. His cremated remains will be returned to Kansas.
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