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...there would be a merger without those two around, do you?" Probably not, but all indications are that Whitney, Hearst and the World-Telegram's Jack Howard have finally got down to business and hammered out agreement on issues from staff to space allotment. Hearst's Frank Conniff is slated to be editor of the afternoon paper; two-thirds of the present Journal-Telegram staffs will be kept. The paper will be printed on the Telegram's 35-year-old presses, which are only slightly less obsolete than the Journal's. The polyglot Sunday Tribune-Journal...
Reporting, not ranting at the President, is the name of the game, wrote Hearst's National Editor Frank Conniff last week. "We happen to think the White House news staffers are perfectly capable of covering their beat, most of them being first-class newspapermen. And if they can't or aren't, it's the fault of the editors who sent them there, not of a President, who really shouldn't be expected to understand the complicated psyche of a newspaperman...
...Sugar Ray insisted he was not nursing an old grudge; he was only defending his honor. As for Columnist Winchell, he kept unprofessionally mute. And the Hearst organization struck a public posture of unconcern. "If Robinson's going to tangle with our lawyers," said National Editor Frank Conniff, "then he's got more money than we think...
...Conniff's candidacy pits journalist against journalist. The incumbent is Ogden R. ("Brownie") Reid Jr., 38, who was president of the New York Herald Tribune for three years before the paper was sold to John Hay Whitney Jr. Before running for Congress, he was U.S. Ambassador to Israel...
Reid's journalistic qualifications do not match Conniff's. A Hearst staffer since 1936, Conniff is a member in excellent standing of the "Hearst Task Force," which roams the world for top-level news. As national editor, he is Hearst's right-hand man for all the papers. He also writes an increasingly popular column that is syndicated by King Features...