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Bellows' morale was also running low this year after a series of disagreements with his Star boss, Joe L. Allbritton, 52. Texan Allbritton bought the falling Star in 1974 and it ran up losses of $30 million before edging toward the black this year. Allbritton hired Bellows in 1975 from the Los Angeles Times, where he was associate editor, and Bellows revitalized the Star staff, modernized the typography, and concocted such popular features as a daily front-page interview with a newsmaker and "The Ear," a madcap, much-quoted gossip column...
Bellows' dustups with Allbritton accelerated in May when the Texan installed Sacramento Bee General Executive James H. Smith as president. "He looks upon a paper as a money machine," says a former Bee colleague. Though the Star's editorial staff had already been sliced from 286 to 242 before Smith arrived, the new president this month ordered a 10% staff cut. Fed up, Bellows resigned...
When Texas Banker Joe L. Allbritton bought a controlling interest in the paper last year, the Washington Star was fading fast. An afternoon paper in an era when most people get their evening news from TV, the Star had been in the red since 1970 and was piling up new deficits at a rate of $1 million a month. Now, quite suddenly, the paper is making money...
...major irritation for Post executives is that lost advertising has been fattening the rival Star. The financially troubled Star can certainly use the extra revenue, but Graham and New York Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger have made personal appeals to Star Publisher Joe L. Allbritton to stand together against the unions. (In its own city, the Times announced that it would close in sympathy if its prime competitor, the News, is hit this week by a strike of deliverers, and the News said it would shut down if Times' deliverers struck first...
...read to support two quality newspapers." Breslin is also cheering hard. "Things are changing here," he told TIME Correspondent Arthur White. "The editorial policy no longer sounds like it was written by Jefferson Davis' press secretary. The morale is good. People work hard." Breslin has only one complaint: "Allbritton hasn't even bought me a drink yet. Tell him I want that drink...