Word: robertses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Roy Roberts took over at the Star, it was a case of one corpulent autocrat replacing another. The paper's founder, 300-lb. William Rockhill Nelson, turned to journalism after dabbling in real estate, cotton farming and contracting. Defeats had only stirred Nelson's crusading spirit, and...
Local Kingmaker. When he became editor, Roberts was just as belligerent. Considering the Star the "hair shirt of the community," he joined in the growing newspaper war on the corrupt Pendergast machine, and kept firing until Pendergast was destroyed. "I'd rather report than eat," said the editor, who...
In recent years, cataracts and ulcers have slowed Roy down. He neither eats nor reports as much as he used to, though he still smokes 15 Coronas a day. In 1963 he became chairman of the board after he resigned as editor, and was replaced by Richard B. Fowler, 63...
Open-Minded Coverage. Though he lacks Roberts' flamboyance, Fowler has some firm ideas of his own regarding the Star, and readers seem to be responding to the changes he is making. The Star has a Washington bureau of two, and it now sends correspondents as far as Africa; though...
The Star is even having second thoughts about all those reporters leaving for other jobs. "Their attitude used to be one of cosmic unconcern," says a reporter who stayed on. "The idea was that if you'd even consider leaving the Star, they didn't want you anyway...