Word: press
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pigtailed, freckled nine-year-old tripped into the Cleveland Press last week and asked to see the editor. Instead of being shooed away, she was led straight to his office. Louis B. Seltzer shook Ruth Harriger by the hand, then gravely read the note she thrust out to him. It was from Ruth's father, an ex-Clevelander now living in New Mexico. He had written her to be sure to call on the Press while visiting in Cleveland. Busy Editor Seltzer dropped everything to take her on a tour of his shop, bought her an ice cream...
Partly because it is never too busy to see people, the Scripps-Howard Press has become the biggest, richest and most influential paper in Cleveland. Its red carpet is always out for readers, whether they come with a complaint, a hillbilly band or (it has happened) leading a bear, a goat or an elephant. They also bring in plenty of stories...
...Press hovers over its readers from cradle to grave, enrolls them in its "Toddlers' Club" as infants, gives free golden wedding parties for them in their old age. It counsels its readers, consoles them and fights their civic battles so well that, like Reader Harriger, they regard it as an old friend rather than a commercial enterprise...
...trying to describe the difference between the Press and most other papers, Roy W. Howard once said: "It's a paper with a heart." The heart beats strongly enough to make the Press the healthiest in the chain; the profit is $2,000,000 a year. For ten years the Press (now 280,000 daily) has run ahead of the Plain Dealer (255,000) and News...
What Makes Louie Run. The man who makes the heart beat is short (5 ft. 5 in.), impish Louie Seltzer, just starting his 21st year as boss of the Press. Seltzer was born in a cottage back of a Cleveland firehouse, the son of Charles Alden Seltzer, an ex-cowpuncher who wrote westerns. Louis quit school at 10 to be a copy boy on the late Leader, became a cub reporter at 18. One day a new building collapsed in downtown Cleveland. Down three flights of stairs from the old Press city room scampered Seltzer...