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...Apparent Kauffmann started replacing the oldtimers with younger, more vigorous department heads. By last week, they were a smooth team. With a clinking cash register (last year the Star was seventh in the U.S. in ad volume), President Kauffmann had no intention of interfering with able Editor Benjamin M. McKelway, 53, who was re-elected last week. And Ben McKelway had no intention of changing the Star's editorial formula of printing local news in great detail and dodging controversial civic issues. Last week he cautiously introduced a larger body type (but the same old Ionic) for better readability...
Three months ago, earnest, angular Editor Ben McKelway of the Washington Star called one of his reporters on the carpet. To 29-year-old Tom G. Buchanan Jr., who covered the medical beat, the boss put one question: Are you a Communist? Reporter Buchanan, an ex-Army captain, replied that he was (an admission that most good Communists regard as naive). McKelway carefully assured Buchanan that his work had been satisfactory. Then he fired...
...being so honest with each other McKelway and Buchanan raised a clear-cut issue that had the C.I.O. American Newspaper Guild in a dither of soul-searching last week. The Star unit of the Guild first tried to ignore the case, and the city-wide executive board of the Guild refused to go to bat for Communist Buchanan. But, just to be sure that it was speaking for its membership, the board called for a referendum vote on whether Communists can be fired simply for being Communists...
...rubbish.) And many a paper feared that voluntary censorship would be an entering wedge. The answer, newsmen felt, is not voluntary censorship but a tightening up of Government organizations to make sure that secrets do not leak. Nevertheless, the group named the Washington Star's craggy Editor Ben McKelway as head of an eight-man committee to think things over and report next month...
...Star," says McKelway, "is an old lady, and it would be unseemly for her to turn a somersault on the Mall. I don't think we're stodgy. Mr. Noyes used to say, 'Let them say we are stodgy and dull. At least, they know that our editorial columns cannot be bought...