Word: denson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...paper, while close to the Herald Tribune in style, would have to be quicker," says James Bellows, the Trib's last editor, who is now associate editor of the Los Angeles Times. Instead of hiring worn-out legmen as rewrite men, says onetime Trib Editor John Denson, who is now executive editor of Atlas magazine, the paper should seek out specialists with enough knowledge at their command to put a story in context...
...name suggests, Sim One is the first in what is expected to be a long line of medical robots. U.S.C.'s Dr. Stephen Abrahamson, who developed the robot with colleague Dr. J. S. Denson, expects that future generations will bleed and sweat, perhaps even groan...
...could do. Naturally, they began with an economy drive; another layer of the Trib's staff was peeled off. Whitney did bring back Coach Woodward, but for editor he chose a small-town boy from Mexico, Mo., who was replaced four months later by Newsweek's John Denson. Denson gave the Trib new direction by trying what he seemed to think was a magazine approach...
...HAVE THE FOLLOWING HEADLINE. WRITE STORY FOR USE WITH IT.) A lot of money was spent on promotion: "A good newspaper doesn't have to be dull." And circulation rose a bit. Then the 1962-63 printers' strike smashed the effort. Another economy drive had already got Denson (he missed too many deadlines), and after the strike, the Trib began vainly trying to imitate his style without his spark. When the 1964 Harlem riots broke on a Saturday night, the Trib refused to break its solidly locked Sunday front page, covered the story inside. And all along...
...gone on vacation, and staffers doubt that he will return to work. One staffer after an other has left for another job. At the Journal-American, reporters are calculating their seniority and worrying about whether they can survive a merger. The word is out that peripatetic Editor John Denson is getting ready to move once more. In the city room of the Herald Tribune, reporters long hardened to the possibility that the paper itself might not survive are beginning to nurse a new nervousness that was not eased three weeks ago, when Managing Editor Murray Weiss took off for Boston...