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...stepping out as editor," it read. "I am sure you all know that the independence of the editorial department has always been one of my principal concerns. I am deeply grateful to all of you who gave me an earnest and honorable helping hand." Thus last week Editor John Denson, 59, abruptly ended his 19-month tenure on the Tribune...
...Denson's vague hint that a jurisdictional dispute prompted his resignation was confirmed by Tribune Publisher John Hay Whitney in another bulletin board advisory that went up shortly after Denson's. "The management of the paper has found it desirable to propose certain organizational changes as well as changes in the operating procedure," Whitney wrote. "These proposals were rejected by Mr. Denson, and he is no longer with the Herald Tribune...
...Roundtable to peddle ads; his ideas, the Trib hastened to add, were strictly his own. The Trib was particularly annoyed at being pictured as the Poor Little Match Girl of New York journalism by its own financial editor: "Last month was our biggest June yet," said Editor John Denson. In an editorial page box which complained that the Times had struck a low blow merely by printing most of Rogers' now on-the-record speech, the Trib was moved to brief apology. "We can only say that we are sorry...
...also designed to demonstrate was that the New York Herald Tribune is emphatically succeeding in its effort to avoid looking, sounding or acting like the only other serious morning paper in Manhattan's field of four, the Times. Under a new editor, former Newsweek Editor John Denson, and backed by the drive and millions of John Hay Whitney, former U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, the Trib is steering a bold matutinal course. In a city that has more morning papers than it needs or wants, the Trib is trying to find a place...
...Denson's program is at least high in curiosity value: the paper's claimed circulation of 395,000 is up 40,000 from a year ago. Among the curious is John Hay Whitney, former U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, who bought the Tribune in 1958. Fortnight ago, Whitney, until recently an absentee landlord, appointed himself editor in chief and moved in for a closer look. But while Multimillionaire Whitney expresses qualified satisfaction with the paper, he has no intention of letting it become an expensive habit. "We have a five-year plan...