Word: david
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think so, Ron; David and I are going to get some ice cream after we move this desk...
Chandler generally improves what his firm buys. At the Dallas Times Herald, for example, the editorial budget has been doubled and news columns increased by 30% since Times Mirror took over in 1969. Says David Laventhol, publisher of Long Island's Newsday, acquired in 1970: "Chandler has a good sense of the need for local autonomy...
Employees sometimes mock his youthful vigor ("Here comes Otis dribbling his shotput through the newsroom"). But they generally respect his hands-off policy. When Chandler asked for an advance look at Times Media Reporter David Shaw's 1976 story on the newspaper business, Shaw questioned the propriety of Chandler's request and the publisher backed down...
...virtually ignored a story about the death of Eula Love, a black woman shot eight times by two policemen. More than three months later after Esquire mentioned the Times's omission, the paper printed a front-page story about the shooting. (The Times did run a piece by David Shaw last month confessing the Begelman and Love failures.) "I would be willing to make the investment on those communities if I felt I knew how to do it," says Chandler...
NONFICTION: Bay of Pigs, Peter Wyden Billy Graham, Marshall Frady ∙ Blood of Spain, Ronald Fraser ∙ I Love: The Story of Vladimir Mayakovsky and Lili Brik, Ann and Samuel Charters ∙ The Medusa and the Snail, Lewis Thomas The Neoconservatives, Peter Steinfels ∙ The Powers That Be, David Halberstam