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...DEVIL RIDES OUTSIDE (596 pp.)-John H. Griffin-Smiths...
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...costs; he lopped off more than 12 heads in the advertising department and business office, began to shake up the news side. Veteran Managing Editor Charles Doyle was put on the copy desk, and aging (72) City Editor Eddie Dunn turned down a lesser job, quit. Sunday Editor John Griffin, 53, moved in as editor-in-chief and named tough-talking Assistant City Editor J. J. (Joe) McManus, 55, managing editor. Star Reporter John Mannion, 43, became city editor. Fox promised that the Post would become a "lively, aggressive newspaper devoted to the public interest," and the new Postmen quickly...
...Paul F. Griffin, of Wynnewood, Pa., went into "factory work and selling" after college, in 1940 got a law degree from Fordham, served with the Navy, later represented the Judge Advocate General's office on two Navy legal boards in Washington, and worked with the EGA in Germany. He is now executive secretary of the Armed Forces Regional Council of Pennsylvania and Delaware. Married, two children. Says he: "I know darned well the Rabbit was sincere when he said he didn't want the nomination...
Underground Roars. In recent years, the Post has had no firm hand at its helm. After the death of Grozier's son Richard in 1946, the paper was technically under the direction of two executors. Actually, City Editor Dunn, Managing Editor Charles R. Doyle and Sunday Editor John Griffin ran the editorial side pretty much as they liked. Sentimentally fond of the Post's slapdash makeup, they came to feel it was "just the way the readers like...