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Frank Ernest Gannett, 62, has discovered Washington. As a newspaperman for over 40 years, 37 of them as publisher (newspapers: New York, 18; Connecticut, 1; New Jersey, 1; Illinois, 1), he had often railed and ranted at Washington as the seat of radical forces. But he had closed his eyes to the fact that the U.S. capital is also the news capital...
This week the Gannett Washington bureau opened with a good, hardworking, conservative newspaperman as its head. Chunky, balding, cigar-smoking Cecil Bunyan Dickson is 44, a onetime cowboy, soda jerk, Marine, A.P.man, I.N.S.man and, until he took his new job, chief reporter of the Chicago Sun's Washington bureau. He is a Texas-minded John Garner man, a great friend of Speaker Sam Rayburn, and the tough, independent kind of reporter who never trades news...
News Bureau or Else. Washington newsmen wondered how stubborn Frank Gannett came to hire deceptively cherubic Cecil Dickson. The facts: at their first meeting Dickson, mindful of the arch-Republican Gannett slant, growled: "If you want to make a political bureau out of a news bureau, you had just as well not open it, and you had better look for another bureau manager. I'm not a Republican. I'm a real Jeffersonian Democrat. But I'm a newsman, nothing else . . . and if I take over any news bureau, it's going to be a news...
...publisher wondered where he could find his old pal Lord Beaverbrook, then in the U.S. Dickson picked up a phone and had the answer in two minutes, from White House sources. Gannett was impressed. Dickson looked like...
...Washington correspondent for five Maine newspapers (Portland's Press-Herald, Evening Express and Sunday Tele gram, Augusta's Kennebec Journal, Waterville's Sentinel, all published by Guy P. Gannett) May Craig keeps Mainers so well posted on national affairs that newsmen nave quipped: "As May goes, so goes Maine." This is somewhat exaggerated. No Down Easter herself (she was born in North Carolina, spent most of her life in Washington), May Craig is likewise no Republican. She describes herself as "about 75% New Dealer." But her Maine readers are fond...