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As an up & coming editor in E. W. Scripps's newspaper chain, dapper young Roy Wilson Howard once got some advice from his boss: "This is a young man's game. By the time you're 40, if you have any ability, you'd better resign...
Scripps, taking back his advice, said things had changed. He persuaded dynamo Howard to stay, changed the chain's name to Scripps-Howard, let him share the management with Scripps's son & heir Robert. Roy Howard brought the chain its greatest growth, prosperity and editorial vigor. He expanded...
Making Hay. Many an editorial writer promptly tried to set Stevenson and Truman right on what a "one-party press" really is. Said the Scripps-Howard papers: "In the real sense, a 'one-party' press would publish only the views of one party . . . That is the custom in...
The trouble came mostly from Republicans who have been in opposition so long that they fall naturally into critical attitudes. Early in the week, the 19 newspapers of the Scripps-Howard chain, in a front-page editorial headlined: IKE, WHEN DO WE START?, clamored for a fighting attack on the...
Married. Nackey Elizabeth Scripps Gallowhur, 28, granddaughter of News-magnate E. W. Scripps; and William Loeb, 46, Old Guard Republican publisher of the Manchester (N.H.) Union-Leader; both for the second time; in Reno.