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Threats of violence were made good when Times Reporter Tipton Shields Blish was set upon in the Marion County Courthouse, hospitalized with his cheekbone broken in 20 places. For that assault police arrested onetime Deputy Prosecuter Peter Anthony Cancilla, whose record includes a conviction for auto theft. Last week Cancilla...
If newspapermen are notoriously an improvident breed, one shining exception is 35-year-old Talcott Williams Powell, son of an Episcopal rector, godson and namesake of the first director of the Pulitzer (Columbia) School of Journalism. Talcott Powell, anxious to make his mark in the world, has kept a performance...
Defying all the laws of ballistics, the Powell performance trajectory kept going up & up. He was made assistant to executive Editor Lee Wood of the World-Telegram. Nearly three years ago he became Editor of the Indianapolis Times (circ.: 80,000 ). a pet paper of chain-publisher Roy Howard because...
Last week ambitious Editor Powell's trajectory described a curve he did not plot-a precipitate and sudden return to zero. Back from a vacation in the Caribbean, he found himself fired without notice, his place taken by a onetime Unitarian minister named Ludwig Denny. To the Times staff...
Real reason for Editor Powell's consignment to the Scripps-Howard doghouse seemed to be that his latest fight, with some local politicians, had become so personal that it canceled his value to his paper. He had lately made some extraordinary allegations of corruption among the Marion County Democracy...