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July. Marlon Brando will be a smash hit in Peter Pan. Liberace is refused, the lectureship going to Senator Knowland. The President of the Class of '96 will resign asking, "Whatever happened to us leftists?" In the world of food, Elsie will deny she owns Cronin's. The Hayes-Bick will reserve four tables for poets only and both Mike's Club and Harry's Arcade will remove food counters to make room for more pinball machines...
...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...
...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 he wanted the right to approve three of the five voting trustees in order...
...editorial staffers, embittered by Ferger's firings, insisted that management's willingness to review the original charges was too little, too late. They wanted Cronin and Ratliff put back to work. "Firings may bring peace to your family," Sunday Feature Editor Charles Warnick wrote Ferger, "but not the firing of these two men. To settle the issue by force you are going to ... fire dozens of us ... until you have wiped out all semblance of loyalty to these men [who] will willingly undertake any sacrifice for the betterment of the Enquirer, an institution they believe bears a close...
...Lynching Bee." Ratliff aired his own accusations at an employee meeting where City Editor Jack Cronin also charged that "the ruthless collusion of unprincipled men" had "betrayed the ideal for which we fought in 1952." Ratliff's chief charges were that : 1 ) board members voted themselves stock options, which, at his insistence, they finally dropped, except for Ferger; 2) Ferger and Assistant Publisher Eugene S. Duffield together paid themselves an estimated $135,000 in a year when the whole company earned a $349,000 profit and paid its stockholders only $78,000 in dividends; 3) Ferger and Duffield negotiated...