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The rest of the U.S. press showed no hurry to get on the bandwagon. And Editor Edward T. Leech of the Scripps-Howard Pittsburgh Press felt downright sorry for the Man of the Hour.
Two staffers confessed to running a downtown office where they took fees for getting publicity into the Times. Several were paid regular retainers by politicians. One reporter was charging $2 a head to Tacomans who wanted their pictures in the paper. Owners Ed and Jim Scripps, grandsons of the late...
Sandy-haired Bill Townes, 38, has been crusading since he was 13. As a page in knee pants at the Oklahoma legislature, he wrote a critical piece on the state senate, shyly showed it to a reporter. Next day it was splashed across the top of Page One in the...
He went west as editor of the Seattle Star, switched to the Tacoma Times just before the Star winked out in a forced sale last year (TIME, Aug. 25). The Scripps brothers, down to the last four links of a western chain that once had eleven papers, invited him (at...
Denver citizens were to vote on a new city charter. Almost everybody, apparently, was for it: the Post, the Scripps-Howard Rocky Mountain News (Denver's only other daily), young Mayor Quigg Newton, the Chamber of Commerce, the unions. The charter's main opponents: 61year-old Columnist Gustin...