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James G. Bellows is known among his friends these days as "the Red Adair of journalism," a Mr. Fixit summoned to patch up ailing newspapers, or at least light up their declining days. As the last editor of the New York Herald Tribune, Bellows breathed temporary vitality into that doomed...
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...
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...
Bellows is walking into the jaws of another strong-willed publisher. Francis L. Dale, 56, a U.S. diplomat in Geneva before becoming Herald-Examiner publisher in April, has turned the Saturday-afternoon edition into a more promising morning paper, plastered the building with posters for what he calls "Operation Upward...
Bellows was first offered the Herald-Examiner editorship last May, but refused it. Dale also sounded out eight other candidates, including Esquire Editor Clay Felker and Sacramento Bee Managing Editor Frank McCulloch. When Dale heard of Bellows' friction with Star President Smith, he renewed his offer, and Bellows accepted...