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...Forever Amberg. The man Newhouse picked to rescue the Globe from its spiritual and economic depression had already accomplished a similar transformation on another Newhouse property, the Syracuse Post-Standard. He is Richard Hiller Amberg, now 48, a grey-haired, hip-shooting combination of businessman, newsman and club-joining civic promoter. On the Globe, Amberg cut production costs, tidied the makeup, concentrated on suburban and local coverage that the internationally minded P-D had begun to neglect, and launched a spate of civic campaigns for better hospitals, better airline service, better traffic safety, and better everything else that would make...
Reaction to the Prince stories came swiftly. Universal Match market shares fell 15¾ points by week's end. Frank Prince was, understandably, personally distressed. "I have never asked anyone not to publish anything about me," he said. "But this is a vicious thing." Richard Amberg, publisher of the rival St. Louis Globe-Democrat, accused the Post-Dispatch of "the dirtiest Goddamned piece of journalism I've ever seen in my life." At Washington University, Chancellor Ethan A. H. Shepley calmly acknowledged that he knew all about Prince's record, just as calmly said that the university...
...strike winnings, the fruits were seedy.' Irrevocably lost during the 101-day siege: an estimated $600,000 in workers' pay, an estimated $5,000,000 in revenue to the Globe-Democrat, plus incalculable long-range losses in subscribers and advertisers. "No one," said Globe Publisher Richard H. Amberg, "wins a strike that lasts as long as this...
...sooner had New York's Samuel I. Newhouse added the St. Louis Globe-Democrat to his chain in 1955 than he began trying to put a new shine on the 103-year-old daily. As publisher he installed Richard H. Amberg, who boosted local coverage, gave big play to public-service projects. In the process, Amberg shuffled some job assignments, replaced few staffers who left the paper. These changes convinced the St. Louis unit of the American Newspaper Guild that the Newhouse management was going in for a wholesale head-lopping. Last February, deeply suspicious of Newhouse, 332 members...
Serving under Smith will be four vice-presidents: David W. Peck, LLB. '25 of New York, presiding justice of the New York Supreme Court; William W. Mein, Jr. '32 of San Francisco, a financier; and Richard H. Amberg '33 of St. Louis, publisher of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat...