Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coming editor in E. W. Scripps's newspaper chain, dapper young Roy Wilson Howard once got some advice from his boss: "This is a young man's game. By the time you're 40, if you have any ability, you'd better resign and get into something else." By the time his 40th birthday was approaching, Howard had built up the United Press, was business manager of all Scripps papers. But for ambitious Roy Howard, that was still not enough. Marching into E. W.'s office, he said: "I'm following your advice...
Scripps, taking back his advice, said things had changed. He persuaded dynamo Howard to stay, changed the chain's name to Scripps-Howard, let him share the management with Scripps's son & heir Robert. Roy Howard brought the chain its greatest growth, prosperity and editorial vigor. He expanded the chain boldly into New York, Washington, Birmingham, Albuquerque, Fort Worth, etc. Far from making his papers pale stereotypes of one another, he encouraged local editors to lead their communities, as the Cleveland Press's Louis Seltzer has so notably done. Howard, whose vernacular is as colorful...
...fought corruption. Few men seemed to stay as vigorous with advancing years. But last week. 30 years after he first spoke it, Roy Howard made good his threat to quit. On his 70th birthday next New Year's Day, Howard announced, he will resign as president of the chain's top operating company, E. W. Scripps Co., and a new young team will take over. The members...
...owned by his family's trust set up by E. W.'s will). As such, he will be top boss, succeeds his stepfather William W. Hawkins, 69.* After three years of college (William and Mary and Pomona), Scripps served a reporter's apprenticeship on the chain's Cleveland Press, put in a World War II hitch in the Coast Guard, has since worked on the Denver Rocky Mountain News and the Cincinnati Post...
...Jack Rohe Howard, 42, Roy's only son, will succeed his father as president. A graduate of Yale ('32), Jack Howard worked on Scripps's Indianapolis Times and Washington News, ran the chain's radio stations and finally became his father's chief troubleshooter...