Word: drummonds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Scripps-Howard staff. Steele. who in 1949 won several prizes for his series on the five-percenter scandals, was frequently mentioned as the successor to the late Bert Andrews to head the Trib's Washington bureau. But when the paper named the Christian Science Monitor's Roscoe Drummond (TiME, Sept. 21), Steele took Scripps-Howard's offer to join its Washington staff...
...Roscoe Drummond...
...thrown other newsmen off his trail. The five: the New York Times's Arthur Krock, Scripps-Howard's Charles Lucey, Kansas City Star's Duke Shoop, Knight Newspapers' Paul Leach, and the New York Herald Tribune's new Washington bureau chief, Roscoe Drummond. "Gentlemen," said Brownell as he walked into his living room, "you have been good to me in the past. Now I would like to do something for you." Then he spilled the Warren appointment, strictly "not for attribution." Next day, papers represented at the secret meeting ran Page One stories saying that...
...such a change, the Trib could not have found a better man. Drummond, a Syracuse University graduate ('24), started out with the Monitor as a reporter 29 years ago, and has since been everything from correspondent and European manager to chief editorial writer and executive editor. In Washington, his staff spent little time trying for beats, filed only interpretive stories under his ironclad rule: "Relate yesterday's facts to today's events to produce tomorrow's meaning." Says Drummond: "A lot of papers would say we didn't write anything but Sunday features." Drummond, like...
...Into Drummond's place as the Monitor's Washington bureau chief will go the paper's managing editor, William H. Stringer, 44, a Harvard Law School graduate who for the past 14 years has been a correspondent in Monitor bureaus around the world. Stringer, appointed managing editor (i.e., chief administrative executive on the Monitor) less than a year ago, will not be replaced in that...