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Boston's Little Theater, the Tributary, has opened its annual Shakespearean Festival with a presentation of "Othello" that is regrettably poor by all critical standards. To cast such an obviously aged man as Edward Finnegan in the role of the powerful and Jealous Moor is the grossest error in the production and one that grows increasingly ludicrous, despite the determined effort of both the friendly audience and Mr. Finnegan to rise above his handicap...
...with Finnegan. The merger made the Times's white-haired Publisher Richard J. ("Uncle Dick") Finnegan, 63, survivor of many a Chicago shakeup, stronger than ever. A shrewdly affable graduate of the old Inter Ocean, he has been with the New Dealing Times since its career began 18 years...
Easy-going Marvin McCarthy, a Finnegan man, stayed on as managing editor. Scores of Sun legmen, columnists and correspondents were axed; overseas, only faithful Frederick Kuh was left...
Looking hard for a silver lining, Marshall Field Jr., now assistant to Finnegan, said: "Now we certainly ought to get into the black." But staffers had their doubts. Round-the-clock papers have seldom worked well except in monopoly cities, where readers had no choice but to buy them morning & night. Newsmen once more asked an old question: did Marshall Field intend to stay in the newspaper business...
...make the Sun a tab too and put out a joint Sunday edition called the Sun-Times. Field will find the Times (circ. 474,000) a 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...