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Last week, for the third time in fourscore years, the Star got a new editor. For the first time, he was not a Noyes-but sober, cautious Benjamin Mosby McKelway, 51, was unmistakably one of Noyes's boys...
Onward & Upward. Ben McKelway, brother of blond, bland St. Clair McKelway of the New Yorker and Hollywood, has risen steadily in the Star's white-tiled, Gothic pile at 11th and Pennsylvania Avenue ever since patriarchal Theodore W. Noyes, its second editor, hired him as a reporter in 1921. Next month he will move into Noyes's triangular, Victorian top-floor office...
Cave-Dwellers' Paper. The Star caters to the "cave-dwellers"-the permanent residents, scorning what McKelway calls the "short timers." The cave-dwellers get their names in the paper regularly, at social gatherings and community club meetings. They can't do without the oldfashioned, fussily-detailed front-page cartoons, drawn in familiar, familial style by 77-year-old Clifford K. Berryman and his son Jim. And the best-read feature is Charles E. Thracewell's This & That column, which is about birds and bugs...
Married. St. Clair McKelway, 41, New Yorker editor turned Hollywood scenarist; and Martha Stephenson Kemp Mature, 27, widow of Bandleader Hal Kemp, ex-wife of Cinemactor Victor Mature; he for the fourth time, she for the third; in Beverly Hills, Calif...
...Author McKelway's concern for newspaper ethics Winchell sneers: "Oh stop! You talk like a high-school student of journalism...