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...first time Multimillionaire John Hay Whitney, then U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, went hunting for an editor for the paper he had just bought. He passed over several prospects to pick Robert M. White II, 45, co-publisher of the Mexico, Mo., Ledger (circ. 9,122). White, who never quite mastered the transition from Mexico to Manhattan, resigned last November...
...President lays down his burden of responsibility with the record wholly summed up on one side of the ledger. Dwight Eisenhower's accomplishments in eight years of peace and prosperity were a strong defense of freedom abroad and a positive push to free enterprise at home. But there were also debits...
...distance from Mexico, Mo. to New York City is 1,070 road miles. The difference between the Mexico evening Ledger and the New York Herald Tribune is even greater. Many young newsmen have successfully made the jump between such small towns as Mexico and the Big City. But in the summer of 1959, Robert Mitchell White II, the Ledger's crewcut coeditor and copublisher, decided to make the trip-at top level. He accepted the positions of president and editor of the Herald Tribune...
...Obnoxious." By Northern standards both papers are conservative. But by Southern standards the Pilot is downright liberal, and the Ledger-Dispatch is at best middle-reading. In Virginia's 1958 school desegregation crisis, the Pilot was the only daily in Virginia to agree from the very beginning that the U.S. Supreme Court's integration orders must be obeyed. "We don't call ourselves liberals," says Editor Lenoir Chambers of the Virginian-Pilot. "We never preached the doctrine of integration." But as Chambers wrote in a 1959 editorial series that won him a Pulitzer Prize, "The mark...
...Ledger-Dispatch, on the other hand, remains staunchly states' rightsist, though there are signs that it has mellowed slightly. Says former Editor Joseph Leslie, an ardent segregationist who retired last year: "The paper is not as obnoxious now as when I was running it." Arriving this week to take over Leslie's old job is an editor who can be expected to follow the Ledger-Dispatch's traditional policies: William H. Fitzpatrick, 52, a Pulitzer prizewinning editor for the New Orleans States and for the past eight years an editorial writer on the Wall Street Journal...