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...involved in writing for newspapers, magazines, radio and television, or in general writing. They include such names as Cleveland Amory '39, Brooks Atkinson '17, Nathaniel Benchley '38, Stuart Chase '10, John Dos Passos '16 and Walter D. Edmonds...
Other officers picked in yesterday's elections include Robert C. Johnston '59, Pegasus; Peter O. Sellar '58, treasurer; and Charles D. Atkinson III '58, business manager. Eric Martin '58 was chosen as art editor, Daniel M. Collier '59 is the new circulation manager, while Peter Scher '58 will fill the office of Bacchus...
When Publisher Atkinson died in 1948, he left the paper to a charitable foundation that he had set up to avoid paying crippling inheritance taxes. To comply with an Ontario law that sets a seven-year limit on ownership of businesses by philanthropic groups, the paper technically should have been put up for sale last April. But when Canadian Beer Tycoon E. P. Taylor offered $25 million for the Star, three of the five directors vetoed the sale out of respect for Atkinson's oft-stated hope that the Star would remain in his family's or employees...
...bidder. Early last week Hindmarsh went to the Star office ready to force a showdown with the foundation directors. Two directors who had doggedly held out against a sale were longtime Star employees; Hindmarsh gruffly demanded and got their resignation, replaced them with two more tractable executives. Director Joseph Atkinson Jr., the late publisher's son, and Hindmarsh's wife, the fifth director, voted with him, and within 48hours the competing evening Telegram broke the first story that the Star was on the block. But the effort to chart the Star's course was more...
Missouri-born Editor Hindmarsh started out as a reporter for the Star in 1912, was named city editor one year later. In 1933 Hindmarsh (who married Publisher Joseph Atkinson's daughter in 1915) became vice president in charge of the editorial departments, fully earned his job with his driving energy, his legendary zeal for pumping money and manpower into a good story, his ruthless discipline of staffers who failed to meet his exacting standards. Ernest Hemingway, Pierre van Paassen and many other famed authors worked as young reporters on his ever-changing staff in the years when Hindmarsh...