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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...until quite recently has the Globehad the luxury of taking pleasure in the enemies it makes. Ten years ago, the Globewas a second-rate home-town paper engaged in a survival struggle with local competitors. "The Globe'sonly aim was to survive," recalls Whipple. Neutrality was maintained partly by choice but predominantly by necessity. Since then, a relaxation of competition has allowed the Globeto emerge as a responsible political force and as one of the major papers in the country...
More than that, Winship has not hesitated to model the Globeafter his own personality. In style, he is the archetypical American rogue, some-what of a Harry Truman in shirtsleeves. He wants to put out a paper with flair, with a slightly flippant attitude. He has what can only be described as a profound appreciation for reckless headlines: he still likes the one run in 1959 when Rockefeller stepped out of the 1960 Republican race--"Rocky Won't Roll." Looking at the old headline a few weeks ago when Rockefeller again withdrew, Winship smacked the desk appreciatively and declared...
Winship would like, perhaps most of all, to have a hand in political and social reform. TheGlobeis the instrument for political action he has been given to manage, and he has instnictively worked to make the old home-town paper an effective political organ. "Winship will promote anything aimed at the development of the core city," observes Alexander Haviland, the Globe'sexecutive editor...
...rare that non-political news gets lead headlines. Says Ian Menzies, managing editor of the Morning Globe,"Tom (Winship) would fill the whole front page with politics if he could." There remain, to be sure, vestiges of the old home-town paper. Pictures of by-standers comforting the victims of car accidents still get put on page two. Violent headlines are the rule, even for routine items. But the grosser forms of parochialism have been removed...
...head the editorial staff. As an undergraduate at Harvard in the '30's, Whipple was a card-carrying Communist and was arrested picketing Sears, Roebuck. After working his way from office boy to reporter on the Globe,he spent two years as a guild organizer before returning to the paper. (He no longer agrees with the guild and is not a member, but he remembers that he "gave it may all in those days...