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Fifteen years ago neat, bespectacled Ralph Nicholson and brisk, blue-eyed Clayton Fritchey were ambitious "boy wonders" on the Scripps-Howard Pittsburgh Press. Nicholson, assistant business manager, dreamed of a paper of his own. Fritchey, assistant managing editor, dreamed of being editor in chief of a big city daily. When they parted in 1931, Nicholson promised Fritchey: "When I do get my paper, you'll be the editor...
This week 45-year-old Ralph Nicholson, owner-publisher of the New Orleans Item, named a new editor in chief: 40-year-old Clayton Fritchey...
Nicholson cleaned up the paper and the plant, raised salaries, restored staff and public confidence. By last week circulation was up one-third, to 80,000. Advertising was up nearly one-third in quantity, one-fourth in rates. Owner Nicholson at last had something worth-while to offer Newsman Fritchey...
Cops behind the Bars. For the last ten years, slim, personable Clayton Fritchey's by-line has accompanied exposes and campaigns that have kept the Cleveland Press (circ. 253,540) the liveliest and one of the richest and most influential of Scripps-Howard papers.** Fritchey has been a managing editor's dream reporter with a reporter's dream assignment: to find his own news...
...Fritchey feat, the Press won a 1937 Pulitzer citation for public service...