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...THERE HAS to be an exception, else there'd be no one to tell the story of New Haven, no longer new or a haven. His name is Sam Poynter, a writer of departmental reports, but a writer nonetheless, to whose eyes "emotions and surprises are wired." Which is why he needs more space. A writer has to see sometimes at middle or long range, and can't be forever "thrilled and cross-eyed...
Died. Henrietta Malkiel Poynter, 66, co-founder and editor of the Congressional Quarterly; of a stroke; in St. Petersburg, Fla. Convinced that the daily press missed much of what went on in Congress, Henrietta and her publisher husband Nelson (St. Petersburg Times) in 1945 started printing their Quarterly-now a weekly-which keeps tab on everything from the attendance of Senators to the doings of lobbyists. Circulation barely brushes 4,000, but includes a wide variety of organizations which pay subscription rates running higher than...
...summer most of them also get a bonus (from $100 to $2,000) to help handle the cost of their education. Not many of them come back to the Times permanently, but a hefty 50% stay in journalism. Which is all that Times Publisher-Editor Nelson Poynter is after. "I just think it's worthwhile perpetuating the breed," he says...
...preference for youth extends to the paper's regular staff as well. Poynter himself is 62, and his executive editor, Don Baldwin, is 48. But after them, the editorial brass are all relative youngsters-a 25-year-old city editor, a 30-year-old sports editor, a 24-year-old telegraph editor. Last month the paper got a new managing editor, Bob Haiman, 30. The Times needed a new managing editor because the old one, Cort Anderson, 30, had been chosen for a top Cowles editorial slot on a new paper being considered for Suffolk County...
...Unhappy with his poor showing in the 1960 Olympics-he started sloppily, was eliminated in the loo-meter quarter-finals-Johnson transferred to San Jose State to work under canny Track Coach Lloyd ("Bud") Winter, who developed U.S. Sprinters Ray Norton and Bobby Poynter...