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...Caretakers. Much of the credit for the Post's present dominance goes to former Executive Editor Arthur Laro and former Managing Editor Jack Donahue. Laro took over the dull and stodgy Post-which then trailed Jesse Jones's Chronicle in circulation-in 1947, was given a relatively free hand by Mrs. Hobby. He livened the layout, raided the rival Houston Press for top talent, strengthened the Post's coverage of both state and national news. In 1958 he hired Donahue, whose aim was simple: "The Post already had the intellectuals; we wanted...
...both Laro and Donahue realized that they were only the Post's caretakers until Heir Apparent Bill Hobby came of executive age. Shortly before the changeover, Laro quit the Post to join the Los Angeles Mirror-News as executive editor; last week Donahue followed, was hired as the Mirror-News's assistant managing editor. Nearly a dozen other Post staffers have indicated that they might hit the trail to California too. To reassure the staff about its new boss, young Hobby stuck this sentence into the Post's news story of the change: "Former Governor William...
...push at the Post† comes from plump, stogie-chomping Executive Editor (and Board Member) Arthur Emmett Laro, 46, whose first move on taking over as managing editor in 1947 was to fire twelve staffers. He got a free hand from his publishers, Texas' onetime (1917-20) Governor William P. Hobby and his wife, Oveta Gulp, wartime WAC commander and the nation's first (1953-55) Health, Education and Welfare Secretary. In ten years Laro has quadrupled his editorial staff (to 110) and kept Houston humming with such solidly documented exposés as hawk-faced City Editor...
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