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...JOHN A. BLETHEN Vice President Seattle Times Seattle, Wash...
Three of the men of '36 have become publishers or editors of big newspapers (William Block of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, William K. Blethen of the Seattle Times, Whitelaw Reid of the New York Herald Tribune). Two are columnists (Stewart Alsop and John Crosby), and one (Richard N. Harris) invented the Toni. "We have a man who is coming to be recognized as the foremost ornithologist of our country [Sidney Dillon Ripley II] . . . We have a famous Fifth Avenue florist [Max Schling Jr.], the entrepreneur of a famous commercial language school [Charles F. Berlitz...
...Intelligencer, Beck came to the Guild's aid. A mob of his hard-fisted cohorts surrounded the P-I building, beat up fleeing nonstrikers and closed the plant up tight as a coffin. Hearst set his writers to beating out virulently anti-Beck radio scripts. General Clarance B. Blethen, corpulent publisher of the Seattle Times, indignantly penned an editorial which ended with the ringing line: "How do you like the look of Dave Beck's gun? The shame...
Bought by his father just before the Klondike Gold Rush, the Times grew with Seattle (circ. 103,434). Blethen wrote its main editorials, originated its layouts, cartoons, slashing civic campaigns, invented several of its printing processes...
...Biggest Blethen battle was with Hearst, who invaded Seattle with the Post-Intelligencer (bought in 1921), spent money like water. Carefully laying his counterattack, General Blethen hired new feature writers, artists, fought Hearst dollar for dollar. Hearst lost. When John Boettiger, the President's son-in-law, became publisher of the P.I., Publisher Blethen ignored him as no threat...