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...paper that sees things his own, New Dealing way, under the guidance of an able, deceptively benign-looking publisher named Richard James Finnegan. The Times has been profitable, which is more than the Sun can say. The Sun will lose its sour-faced executive editor, E. Z. ("Dimmy") Dimitman, whom Field imported from the Philadelphia Inquirer. Dimmy never did have much use for his boss's earnest crusades, and he has less use for tabs. His successor (with the title of managing editor): James Mulroy, who as a Daily News police reporter won a Pulitzer Prize for cracking...
Fenced Out. The fourscore casualties of Field's big shake-up got double severance pay. But the left-wingers among them raised an anguished outcry: lean, thick-lensed Executive Editor Eli Zachary Dimitman, they complained, had eased them out and kept conservatives on. Actually the ax had fallen right & left. In the Sun's foreign staff of seven, only Frederick Kuh (London), Alexander Kendrick (Paris) and Virginia Prewett (Latin America) had survived. In Washington, byliners like careful, competent Carroll Kilpatrick, who covered Congress, and Labor Specialist James Free were...
Executive Editor Dimitman, no crusader, but a sharp news vendor, emerged from the purge stronger than ever. Until last week, Field and the editorial writers had charted Sun policy. Now two of the five editorialists are gone, and the new board will do the navigating. Dimitman, who learned his trade under the late Moe (Daily Racing Form) Annenberg on the Philadelphia Inquirer, is on the board...
Before the dust had settled from last week's explosion at the Sun, "Dimmy" Dimitman sent a thin-lipped memo to his editors. Excerpts: "Unduly large portions of our spot-news space have been devoted to subjects featured on the editorial page. > . . I think it should be our policy to gain readers before we concentrate on educating and reforming them. We are now preaching sermons to a congregation which believes them exactly...
...from 270,000 to 461,000 daily, from 650,000 to 1,380,000 Sunday. His popularity with the staff was such that, on the day he left, the Inquirer's eight Washington bureaumen got a telephone call reminding them that they worked for the Inquirer, not for Dimitman...