Word: lait
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leads & Eyes. If so, the News editors weren't the only ones. In his weekly Mirror column, veteran (65) Editor Jack Lait put a finger on one trouble with postwar journalism. "The emphasis on 'leads' . . . seems to have largely evaporated," he wrote. "In my journalistic salad days reporters sweated to create dramatic, amusing or literary leads ... It was a problem of clutching the reader by the throat, quick, and giving it to him while his eyes bulged...
...show what he meant, Mirror Editor Lait clutched his readers by the throat in the first paragraph of a spicy divorce story...
Tough School. Jack Lait is one of the hard-schooled, shrewd, and devoted $52,000-a-year men who make the Hearst-papers what they are. Born in lower Manhattan, Lait went to school in Chicago with the late Eleanor Medill Patterson. He broke in on the police beat for the late Chicago American, covered the rise of gangs, lived through the rough & tumble Front Page days...
...graduated to the editorship of King Features Syndicate in Manhattan when a friendly Chicago cop telephoned him a mysterious summons in 1934. Lait rushed to Chicago and got his most famous scoop, standing a few feet away when G-men shot down Badman John Dillinger...
...years later Lait succeeded Walter Howey, a Chicago contemporary, as editor of the Mirror. Against the toughest competition in the country-the tabloid Daily News-he has doubled the Mirror's circulation (to 1,054,000 daily, 2,206,000 Sunday). Lait's Mirror has one big advantage over all other Hearstpapers: it is the only one that does not have to run Hearst editorials (because the afternoon Journal-American does...