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...masthead of Newsweek magazine went a new name last week. Llewellyn Link ("Pete") Callaway Jr.. 55. advertising director (since 1959) of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, took over as Newsweek publisher. Callaway's new post represents a fission of existing executive authority. He will shoulder some of the duties of Newsweek's Gibson McCabe. who. until Callaway arrived, served in a double capacity as both president and publisher...
...joined the News in 1946. and worked up from reporter to political columnist. Baggs came on strong. He cleared the staff of deadwood, from managing editor on down, ultimately firing 15% of his staff. Of Cox, he demanded and got complete editorial command. He changed the paper's masthead slogan from "Today's News Today"* to "Best Newspaper Under the Sun." To staffers he said: "We're going to try to smuggle a little scholarly journalism into the paper too." Unequipped to compete with the Herald's news-gathering army, he focused sharply on the significant...
When Newton's decision to fire Althen came on Oct. 17, Terry Mashall, managing editor of the Daily, resigned, Remaining staff members removed the last three words from the paper's masthead motto, "71 years of editorial freedom...
...morning Enquirer has been a chain possession since 1956, but Publisher Roger Ferger does not go to the annual meetings (he is not invited) and does not receive the Washington-written editorials (he would not run them). Nor does the Scripps-Howard lighthouse beam from the Enquirer's masthead. The Enquirer endorsed Ohio Republican William O'Neill for Governor in 1958, the Post & Times-Star supported Democrat Mike Di Salle. > To an even greater degree than the Cincinnati Post, the Cleveland Press picks local candidates without regard to their political hue. After supporting Di Salle in 1958, this...
Although such forthrightness helped reduce race trouble in northeast North Carolina-it remains remarkably free of it to this day-it only heightened the Independent's unpopularity. In a backhanded compliment, the State Port Pilot over in Brunswick County raised this brag to its masthead: "Most Cussed Newspaper in North Carolina, Outside of Elizabeth City" The Independent ultimately commanded a paid audience of 6,000 spread over 30 states, but it went virtually adless for years at a stretch, fought a losing lifelong battle against financial failure. In 1937, after Editor Saunders tried unsuccessfully to convert the Independent...