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RICHARD P. BACHMAN Mobile, Ala...
...strict sense, Newhouse does not publish newspapers, or even run them; he merely collects them, leaving editorial policy to the executive hands he inherited when he bought out their previous employers. "How do you want to operate?" Newhouse asked Jack Langhorne, publisher of the Huntsville, Ala., Times, after buying that paper in 1955. "Just like we've been operating," Langhorne replied. "O.K., Jack," said Newhouse. "You run it." It was the last command from Newhouse that Langhorne ever...
...room Park Avenue duplex in Manhattan is one he does not own (but wishes he did): the New York Times. Newhouse papers disagree not only with one another but with the proprietor. Newhouse himself favors integration, but not to the point of rebuking the publisher of his Birmingham, Ala., paper, the News, which is rabidly racist. A registered Democrat, Newhouse voted for Kennedy in 1960; eight of his papers endorsed Nixon...
...small farmer, later a storekeeper, in rural Harlan, Ala., Black had little pre-law college training, but obtained a law degree from the University of Alabama with honors. He set up private practice in Ashland, became a police judge and later a prosecuting attorney. In 1925 he decided to forsake a $50,000-a-year law practice, mostly in damage suits, to run for the Senate. Though virtually unknown, he beat four other candidates in a statewide campaign conducted from a model...
...CYNTHIA RUIZ-FORNELLS Tuscaloosa, Ala...