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In his corner office high above Manhattan's Park Avenue, Scripps-Howard's Roy Wilson Howard riffled through a stack of well-wishing telegrams: at 77 he had just announced that he was retiring after 33 years as editor of the New York World-Telegram and Sun, divesting...
The words had a lordly ring-and Roy Howard had long since been certified as a U.S. press lord. Under Howard, the 19-paper Scripps-Howard newspaper chain has become the nation's biggest. With an eye that saw red when red figures appeared in the ledgers and could...
Maybe a Good One. The son of a railroad brakeman, Roy Howard was born in a tollgate house in Gano, Ohio, and was blooded in the newspaper business hawking papers as a boy in Indianapolis. He drifted from paper to paper before finally latching onto a job with the Cincinnati...
"All of Old Man Scripps's sons were over six feet tall," Howard has recalled, "and he naturally had a preference for tall men. When I stood in front of him, 5 ft. 6 in. tall and weighing about 115 Ibs., he pushed his glasses up on his forehead...
Howard in 1907 took over as general news manager of United Press, which had been formed by Scripps from three other news-gathering services. In less than five years, Howard was U.P.'s president. In 1922 Howard complained to Old Man Scripps that the Scripps newspapers had become chronic...