Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ever since he took over as publisher in 1962, ambitious Tom Vail, a descendant of Plain Dealer Founder Liberty E. Holden, had been chafing at the management of the bankers and lawyers who run the six trusts controlling the paper. "They are money people, not newspaper people," he complained. "They wanted to diversify." Then along came Newhouse, who had been trying to buy the paper, off and on, for years. In negotiations that were secret even by Newhouse's ultra security-conscious standards, he finally made a $500-a-share offer. The stockholders, who were dissatisfied with the dividends...
Newhouse is just as pleased as Vail. With its circulation of 377,000, the Plain Dealer becomes the biggest paper in his chain of 22 U.S. dailies. As part of the deal, Newhouse also picked up a community TV antenna company, some lakeshore property on Cleveland's west side and the Art Gravure Corp., which prints Sunday supplements...
Moreover, Newhouse is getting a paper that has been making a name for itself. Energetic Vail has considerably improved the editorial content with imaginative local coverage and investigative reporting. Under his five-year-old regime, circulation has jumped 15%, putting the Plain Dealer closer to the afternoon Cleveland Press circulation...
Almost unnoticed beyond Madison Avenue was the brief announcement last month that the ad agency of Kastor Foote Hilton & Atherton Inc. had changed its name to just plain Emerson Foote, Inc. The switch was significant: it meant that Emerson Foote, 60, had once again set up shop in a serious...
...annual reports, by and large as plain as any annual reports, are laced with such words as "adventure." Monro has always grasped for fresh ideas and criticisms of old practices. When engaged in new enterprises, he transmits a sense of excitement and displays vast amounts of energy. A student who has worked with him at Miles College says: "They [the people at Miles] are a little bit cowed by Monro's ability to work hard and accomplish a lot in a short time.... The drive to get things done is paramount...