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...brochure limns the chain's recent history in decapitating detail. "When I saw that picture," says one current editor, "I thought to myself: there's something funny about Harry." Indeed there is. The head of Harry Rosenfeld of the Albany Times-Union sits atop the body of Reg Murphy, former editor of the San Francisco Examiner. Says James Bellows, who is still in the picture despite leaving the Los Angeles Herald Examiner last November: "Harry is wondering where his body is. He thinks [David] Halvorsen might have...
...disappeared from the picture entirely, along with any mention of his paper. So has former San Antonio Light Editor Bob Page. His successor, Ted Warmbold, who is 6 ft. tall, was disappointed to find his head attached to an unidentified 5 ft. frame. "And I thought I had Reg Murphy's body...
Normally that kind of talk would prompt indignant editorials defending freedom of the press. But few journalists are eager to defend the methods of a publication that San Francisco Examiner Editor Reg Murphy calls "a disgrace to journalism." Says Syndicated Gossip Columnist Liz Smith of the decision: "It is no precedent against the First Amendment. Responsible publishers, journalists and columnists can go on being fair-minded and work with impunity...
...Sheehy series touched off minor competitive dramas in several cities where it appeared. In San Francisco, where the Tribune Syndicate's regular customer is the Examiner (circ. 159,000), the rival Chronicle (circ. 507,000) snatched the series instead. "There was a bleep-up," said an angry Reg Murphy, the Examiner's editor. Murphy struck back with a survey of Bay Area business executives, all of whom said they would hire Cunningham on the spot...
...presser, Mother a sweatshop garment worker), who got a law degree on loans from the University of Minnesota, and says, "I've always wanted to be sure that I didn't take more from the system than I was putting back." There is Shapiro's friend Reg Jones, a British-born intellectual, who has been similarly motivated to repay the society in which he climbed to become chairman of General Electric. And Citicorp's Walter Wriston, imbued with public commitment by his father, a university president who was also a high Government adviser...