Word: ruppel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Louis Ruppel, 54, flamboyant, crusading reporter, columnist and editor, who began at 20 as a newshound (for the New York American), worked up through the rowdy Chicago press and became Collier's staff-eating, "off-with-their-heads" editor (1949-52); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in New York City. As managing editor of the Chicago Times (1935-38), Ruppel doubled its circulation by such tricks as having one of his reporters committed to a state mental hospital to get a series of Page One stories, disguising his photographers as clergymen, using siren-screeching ambulances to deliver World Series...
...critics were disarmed. Richter gave them a joyfully dynamic performance that was nonetheless satisfyingly authentic. Admitting that there were no signs of Richter's previous peccadillos in this concert and genially explaining the old flaws as "growing pains," the dean of Munich's critics, Karl Heinz Ruppel, summed up the concert in one word: "Wunderbar...
When terrible-tempered Louis Ruppel resigned under fire as editor of Collier's last month, few top editors longed for his job. In the last eight years, Collier's has had so many shake-ups that its editor's chair is the hottest seat in magazine publishing. This week, into the hot seat went one of the company's own men, Roger Dakin, 47, articles editor of Crowell-Collier's Woman's Home Companion...
...different from Ruppel as a summer breeze is from a roaring tornado, Dakin had a good record at the Companion, where he sparked the magazine's public-service articles, one of the most popular features the Companion has ever run. Born in Gloucester, Mass., Dakin went to the Companion after years on the New York Telegram, the New York Daily News (where he scored a famed beat in 1936 with Cinemactress Mary Astor's diary during a court fight over custody of her child), and PM, where he ran the "News for Living." At Collier's, Dakin...
Advertising revenue also was down; it was well below 1948, the year before Ruppel came in. But recently Ruppel ran into trouble from a different source. Last February, with a splash of full-page newspaper ads, Collier's touted a big exclusive: the inside story of "Mr. Big," described as the boss of "New York's sprawling, brawling, racket-ridden waterfront." In two articles, Collier's Star Crime Reporter Lester Velie identified "Mr. Big" as William J. McCormack, trucking, concrete and stevedoring contractor...