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After Owner-Editor Ogden Reid died in 1947, popping off went out of style at the Trib. Classmates of Whitelaw Reid (Yale '36), Ogden's son, began showing up on the payroll-even on Woodward's staff. In 1948, during an economy wave, the management suggested that Woodward trim off a few sports hands, asked him for names. Barked the Coach: "Red Smith and me." Not long after that, Whitelaw Reid found a name for the trim list: Rufus Stanley Woodward. The new sports editor was Robert Cooke (Yale...
...with enthusiastic staff approval, Day City Editor Richard West (Harvard '29), a veteran Trib hand who had been passed over for promotion three times, was moved up to the city editor's slot. Last week Executive Editor George Cornish-the same man who fired Woodward for "Whitey" Reid in 1948-fired Sports Editor Cooke. His successor: Rufus Stanley Woodward (Amherst '17). After leaving the Trib in '48, Woodward had drifted through a series of jobs, freelanced a bit, wound up as sports editor of the Newark Star-Ledger. Aging (63), quieting (he hasn't kicked...
...lives of Orphan Annie and Smilin' Jack, handed out free copies of undistributed Sunday-edition comic supplements. The Herald Tribune, which had to wait for the end of the strike to publish an inside story, published it: the resignation of Herald Tribune President and Editor Ogden R. Reid (TIME, Dec. 15), who had postponed his departure until the paper could record it. Lingering effects of the long shutdown were still apparent in the first Sunday editions. With a Page One explanation, the Herald Tribune stuffed three-week-old magazine supplements into its Sunday paper, plus all three color comic...
When Multimillionaire Financier John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, 54, U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, bought the faltering New York Herald Tribune (circ. 377,400) from the Reid family last summer (TIME, Sept. 8), one of the main questions left unanswered was the future of boyish Ogden ("Brown") Reid, the paper's 33-year-old publisher and editor. Last week it was reported that Reid will leave his operating post on the Trib this month, with no fixed plans for the future. He will still be connected with the Trib: he and brother Whitelaw...
Divorced. Dan Topping, 47, co-owner (with Del Webb) of the New York Yankees, millionaire grandson of Metal Magnate Daniel Gray Reid (American Can Co.), onetime husband of Cinemactress Arline Judge,* Skater Sonja Henie and others; and Alice Lowthers Topping, 30, onetime Manhattan model; after six years of marriage, two children; in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico...