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...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...
...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...
...reporters to the staff and expanded its business coverage. Last week Hearst headquarters announced that after the turn of the year its Los Angeles hybrid will get a new editor to replace Herbert H. Krauch, 66, a Hearst veteran of 50 years. Krauch's replacement will be John Denson, 59, who recently quit as editor of the New York Herald Tribune after a showdown argument over editorial authority...
...departure again set in motion one of the most peripatetic newsmen in the U.S. press. Since 1921, Denson has filled slots on a press wire service, five magazines (including seven years as Newsweek editor), a radio network and five dailies in three cities. At the Trib, his splashy style, unorthodox headlines and capsule summations of the news made the paper sprightlier in appearance...
Whitney did not immediately replace Denson. Instead, he changed the title of James Gilbert Bellows, 39-whom Denson brought in from the Miami News last year-from executive editor to managing editor, and placed Bellows in editorial charge. With that, staffers on a paper that has changed editorial command four times in four years devoutly hoped that the Tribune would settle down for a while...