Word: ruppel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...until the Mexican General Santa Anna destroyed their press. Last week Gail Borden recalled this bit of family history when he was lifted out of his congenial niche as columnist and drama critic of Chicago's tabloid Daily Times and made managing editor to succeed Lou Ruppel, who resigned last month (TIME...
Where Lou Ruppel specialized in "sock," Managing Editor Borden specializes in poise, acquired at Dartmouth (Class of 1926), Harvard (M.A.), University of Chicago, where he taught Shakespeare until he joined the Times in 1929. He was a flying fanatic until one day in 1932, when he tried to do an Immelmann turn from the ground, cracked up with two broken ankles and his face halfway through the dashboard. During his long hospital convalescence, he kept the broken instrument board at the foot of his bed, as a memento mori...
...Times, Gail Borden has been an ardent Guildsman, a great traveler, one of Lou Ruppel's best friends. He was born 33 years ago in Houston, a block from Aviator Howard Hughes (a close friend), is married to Betty Frey, daughter of a potent Chicago adman. They expect their first baby in April. His widowed mother holds about 7% of the Times's stock. Last week Managing Editor Borden had good reason but little time for his favorite hobby : sitting up all night to talk and bib with fellow-newsmen...
Last summer rumors got around that Editor Ruppel was unhappy over "changes in routine" which gave other editors added authority in the local room. Two weeks ago he announced he was leaving, was feted at a noisy, sentimental banquet. Times reporters and writers whooped with delight when courtly Musicritic Robert Pollak stood up and described the arrival of Editor Ruppel as a "foundling" in the Times's lobby nearly four years ago. Said he: "The baby was wrapped in an old copy of the New York Daily News. When we first made out its cries it was yelling...
Last week Lou Ruppel got a new job far removed from the din of replating. On December 28 he becomes publicity director of Columbia Broadcasting System.* His successor at the Times: quiet, serious Newseditor Rowland Wood...