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More Fun. The new rivalry is very much the doing of Journal Publisher and President Victor Irwin ("Dutch") Maier, 65, who felt that competition would benefit both papers. After the merger, the Journal hands who crossed over-among them Assistant Managing Editor Harvey W. Schwandner, now the Sentinel's executive editor-were told that the last thing Dutch Maier wanted was a morning edition of the Journal. "No other two-paper operation that I know about," says Lindsay Hoben, Journal editor and vice president, "grants the autonomy that our papers have." The facts bear him out. Last year...
...grant of complete editorial in dependence, the Sentinel has responded by becoming what it seldom was under Hearst: a look-alive newspaper. After publication of a 1963 series on unequal representation in Wisconsin county governments, the Sentinel was dissatisfied with the volume of public indignation. A suit subsequently brought by two Sentinel editors won a Wisconsin Supreme Court decision ordering reapportionment of the boards of supervisors in 70 of the state's 72 counties...
Last month the Sentinel scored an other legal victory, this time against Milwaukee Police Chief Harold...
Breier. After getting wind of alleged police shenanigans-ticket fixing by cops and an after-hours party in a bowling alley that was heavily attended by blue uniforms-Sentinel newsmen sought out Chief Breier. His response was to refuse access to the departmental orders from which the reporters could have gathered the names of the offenders. That was last spring. The paper took the matter to court, where Breier's departmental records were ordered restored to public scrutiny...
Today, far from feeling inferior to the Journal, the Sentinel feels only challenged. "It's more fun being second, I think," says Sentinel Women's Editor Coleen Dishon, who, like her husband, voluntarily shifted over from the Journal. "Like Avis, we try harder...