Word: paassen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...daughter in 1915) became vice president in charge of the editorial departments, fully earned his job with his driving energy, his legendary zeal for pumping money and manpower into a good story, his ruthless discipline of staffers who failed to meet his exacting standards. Ernest Hemingway, Pierre van Paassen and many other famed authors worked as young reporters on his ever-changing staff in the years when Hindmarsh was turning the struggling Star and Star Weekly into Canada's most valuable single newspaper property (circulation: 408,545), with Toronto real-estate alone worth...