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Securing a buyer for U.P.I, was not easy. The owners offered it first to a consortium of U.S. newspapers, next to the British-based Reuters news agency, then to National Public Radio, before finding controversial new proprietors in June 1982. Buyers Douglas Ruhe and William Geissler had minimal experience in journalism, but plenty in political activism: Ruhe, 39, was twice arrested for civil rights protests in the 1960s, while Geissler, 37, spent almost a year in federal prison for refusing to be drafted during the Viet Nam War. Both had been publicists for the little-known...
Things got worse. The Denver Post decided it could do without U.P.I. The Dallas Morning News also dropped out, claiming that it was being charged more than competitors. Other papers, including the New York Daily News, exacted costly concessions. Ruhe and Geissler did not help their cause much when they spoke to the American Society of Newspaper Editors in Denver last May about why newspapers should subscribe to U.P.I. Said Robert Maynard, editor and publisher of the Oakland (Calif.) Tribune: "They shot themselves in all four feet with one bullet...
...more than 15% leap in the number of nights spent by U.S. guests in Swiss hotels; a 10% jump is expected this year. Thanks to an inflation rate that has averaged 4.5% over the past five years, some hotels have not raised prices since 1980. In addition, notes John Geissler of the Swiss National Tourist Office, "you can eat in ordinary restaurants with reasonable prices and have a very good meal. You do not have to go to the luxury restaurants." Nonetheless, grande cuisine can be savored in Switzerland, notably at Girardet, near Lausanne, which ranks...
Media News was put together a few months ago by four young entrepreneurs. Douglas Ruhe, 38, the firm's managing director, and William E. Geissler, 36, are executives of Focus Communications in Nashville, which runs a UHF pay-TV station. Cordell J. Overgaard, 48, has represented newspapers as a senior partner with the Chicago law firm of Hopkins & Sutter. Len R. Small, 39, editor and publisher of the Daily Dispatch in Moline, Ill., is a former U.P.I, foreign correspondent...
Allen Moore Geissler...