Word: mckelway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ending one tradition and renewing another, the Washington Star's Editor Benjamin M. McKelway last week became...
...second of its four presidents to come from the Star. Ben McKelway, 62, is a softspoken, square-faced North Carolinian who started on the strait-laced Star as a reporter in 1921, has been editor of the paper since 1946, and is a onetime president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. He was elected by the A.P.'s 24-man board of directors to succeed the Philadelphia Bulletin's President-Publisher Robert McLean, 66, who resigned after 19 years. McLean's predecessor: the late Star Publisher Frank B. Noyes, who as president of the A.P. from...
...Korea," he said. The flabbergasted clerk took his hand and murmured, "I'm glad to meet you," just as John Simmons, the equally flabbergasted State Department protocol officer, caught up with Syngman Rhee and whisked him off to the offices of the Star's Editor Ben McKelway for a chat...
Samuel Kauffmann, 54, was the head janitor on the sixth floor, who came to the paper when Kauffmann did, 31 years ago. Alongside Editor McKelway, 57, sat a Negro press helper who got a job on the Star in 1920, when McKelway came to work for the paper. For the occasion, the Old Lady showed she could still kick up her skirts. To the "Live a little" tune, the Star promotion manager good-naturedly needled the staff: "You've got to lie a little, boast a little/You've gotto make like the [Washington] Post a little...
...family banking on this paper for our income," says he. "It's got to make money." Office wags joke that in one more generation, or perhaps two, the Star will need no help at all from outside families. The top "outsider" on the Star is Editor McKelway. He is also the only non-family stockholder. McKelway, brother of The New Yorker's St. Clair McKelway, was given one share so that he could sit on the paper's board...