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...Cincinnati Enquirer's City Editor Jack Cronin was at home wading through the fattest Sunday edition (354 pages) in the paper's 114-year history when the letter arrived. He read: "You have by offensive, insolent, contemptuous, defamatory, opprobrious language . . . impugned the motives, actions and conduct of the officers and directors of the newspaper and have otherwise attacked their probity and imputed improper purposes to them . . . you are hereby dismissed." It was signed "Roger Ferger," publisher of the Enquirer. Also fired by Ferger: Columnist James H. Ratliff Jr., who spearheaded the 1952 drive in which Enquirer employees raised...
Thus, Publisher Ferger hoped to quell the uproar over Enquirer management (TIME, Dec. 5) in which Ratliff had already been dumped as vice president and secretary of the company. But the firings,, only intensified the bitterness. At a meeting later in Cincinnati's Cox Theater, staffers sat in grim silence for 90 minutes while Ferger, 61, denied charges by Ratliff and Cronin that his own salary and bonus (1955 total: $104,699) and those of Assistant Publisher Eugene Duffield ($62,319) were excessive. Moreover, said Ferger, financial backers had urged him to insist on a ten-year contract; while...
...Door. A hot-air curtain that takes the place of a door has been installed at a Kroger Co. supermarket in Cincinnati by St. Louis' American Air Curtain Corp...
Employees of the Cincinnati Enquirer (circ. 202,951), led by Reporter James H. Ratliff Jr., made U.S. press history three years ago by raising the cash to take over their own paper (for $7,600,000) to save it from being sold to the rival Taft-owned Cincinnati Times-Star. For his leadership, Ratliff won front-page stories, became vice president and secretary of the company. Last week the Enquirer ran another story on Ratliff on page six. He had been "removed" from those jobs, thereby touching off a new and bitter fight for control of the city...