Word: dimitman
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...Dimmy") Dimitman's handshakes with reporters and deskmen were perfunctory, and his looks were all against him: round-shouldered, reed-thin, with a small chin and a mousy little reddish mustache. A few hours later the staff liked his looks a lot better...
...exactly what we've been needing around this shop." Said another, who had been planning to leave in disgust: "I think I'll stick around awhile. He looks O.K." New Man. Until he went to work for the Sun last week, 45-year-old Eli Zachary Dimitman had never worked outside Philadelphia. He joined the Philadelphia Inquirer 18 years ago as rewriteman, was city editor when Moses L. (Moe) Annenberg, the racing-sheet publisher now dead, took over the Inquirer in 1936. Talent-wise Moe Annenberg at once made Dimmy executive editor...
...great ad for Mr. Annenberg's racing publications," suggested that the Inquirer "predict a daily double on the Supreme Court." In Harrisburg, Chief Justice John W. Kephart ordered a "thorough investigation." First witness was the Inquirer's able, popular city editor, Eli Zachary ("Dimmy") Dimitman. Loyally, he assumed full responsibility for the story, denied any assistance from members or officers of the court, insisted he had already been "reprimanded" by Publisher Annenberg. Second witness was Publisher Annenberg who repudiated any advance knowledge of the story, said he was as distressed as the court...