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James F. Hoge Jr.,38. The editor of the Chicago Sun-Times, seventh largest U.S. morning newspaper (circ. 569,000), started as a police reporter after graduating from Yale, then was a White House correspondent before becoming assistant city editor in 1964. Son of a wealthy New York City lawyer, he became editor in 1968, has brightened layouts, emphasized investigative reporting and broadened coverage of the underprivileged. A handsome bachelor-about-town since his divorce from Alice Patterson Albright, whose family of Medills and Pattersons made newspaper history with their Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News and the late Washington...
...Saigon, in the State Department and as a member of the U.S. delegation to the Paris peace talks. In 1972 his late but growing reputation as a pithy critic of some aspects of U.S. foreign relations helped win him the managing editorship of Foreign Policy magazine, a small (circ. 12,000) but increasingly influential quarterly with an eye for such lively, sometimes irreverent details as Columbia Professor Zbigniew Brzezinski's recent report card on the Nixon Administration's foreign policy (overall 1974 grade C+, compared with...
...waged a running battle with Colorado polluters. Grandson of the co-founder of the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain, young Howard was raised in New York City, took his B.A. at Yale in Russian literature. He has helped add about 30,000 new subscribers to the once listless tabloid (circ. 219,000) since joining it in 1965, making it a real challenger to the flabby Denver Post...
...Dale Francis, 57, is a softspoken, teetotaling journalist who has not taken a week's vacation in the four years since he took over the National Catholic Register (circ. 90,000). Francis was chosen for the job by Schick Millionaire Patrick Frawley Jr., who bought the then-progressive paper at the urging of conservative Jesuit Gadfly Daniel Lyons to give it a more traditional tone. A onetime Methodist lay preacher who became a Catholic in 1945, Francis has socially liberal credentials as a longtime union supporter and early civil rights advocate...
...Father Kenneth Baker, 44, is an energetically conservative Jesuit educator who has edited the monthly Homiletic and Pastoral Review (circ. 17,000) since 1971. Like Francis, Baker won his editorial slot through the good offices of fellow Jesuit Dan Lyons, who found backers to buy the ailing magazine. Baker has kept the Homiletic open to a broader range of viewpoints than the Register. But Baker too believes that the bishops have largely abandoned their magisterium-their teaching office...