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Playmaking guard responsible for the headline and the steal: Herald-American gung ho editor Don Forst, late of the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, where his reporters considered him the best editor in the country...
...Forst's willingness to go for all the gusto can only be good news for Boston readers. Lacking competition from the heretofore mediocre Hearst paper, the Globe has become more and more complacent. Although the Globe boasts some of the best reporters in the country, notably Curtis Willkie in the Washington bureau, its overall editorial direction can only be described as laidback. While the Globe's Lazy-Boy-recliner-and-beer-can-with-TV-tuned-to-the-Red-Sox energy level may do wonders for its reporters' longevity and mid-career heart attack possibilities, Boston is the worse...
...ideal, of course, is a news staff totally motivated by their editor's enthusiasm and energy--the Spark-Plug syndrome rather than the Times' Carrot-and-Stick or the Post's Survival-of-the-Fittest. Don Forst is quick with his stick--he fired the Herald's Sunday magazine editor not long ago when the guy chose to spend a weekend with his family rather than fly down to the magazine's printers in Kentucky with a last-minute editorial change. But Forst's approach to Hartnett suggests a Champion Spark Plug in the making. According to Dave O'Brian...
...times last week-crossing the border at dawn, dusk and midnight-walking, driving, and once taking a ghostly ride through East Berlin's heavily guarded U-bahn (subway) stations. He also scouted the length of the East-West Berlin border from Teltow Canal in the south to Tegeler Forst in the north, scrambling over rubble and through potato patches, often attracting the nervous attention of the armed border guards. At week's end, Washington Correspondent Loye Miller flew to Bonn and Berlin with Vice President Johnson to augment TIME'S own "presence" in Berlin...
After Ike's victory in New Hampshire, one of the Minnesota eager beavers had an idea. Maybe they could get some write-in votes for Ike, thought young (32) Forst Lowery, Minneapolis Safety Council manager. He asked for a state ruling on whether write-ins would be counted. Just four days before the primary the answer came from the statehouse...