Word: staff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Month," for instance, and "Chester the Molester" will be renamed "Chester the Protector" and reassigned to guarding young girls from evil. Flynt does not say what will become of nude photo spreads or of Flynt's thriving mail-order sex-aids business. Says one bewildered Hustler staff member: "I guess we'll be pushing dildos and crucifixes...
...flagging ship of the Hearst chain, so far behind the Los Angeles Times (circ. 1,018,000) that to call the pair rivals is an overstatement. The Herald-Examiner has lost more than 400,000 readers in the past decade with its overblown headlines and underreported stories. The staff is so demoralized that even the scabs hired to break a strike ten years ago eventually went on strike. Said a Her-Ex staffer of his peers: "They're all running about two quarts...
...Star boss, Joe L. Allbritton, 52. Texan Allbritton bought the falling Star in 1974 and it ran up losses of $30 million before edging toward the black this year. Allbritton hired Bellows in 1975 from the Los Angeles Times, where he was associate editor, and Bellows revitalized the Star staff, modernized the typography, and concocted such popular features as a daily front-page interview with a newsmaker and "The Ear," a madcap, much-quoted gossip column...
Bellows' dustups with Allbritton accelerated in May when the Texan installed Sacramento Bee General Executive James H. Smith as president. "He looks upon a paper as a money machine," says a former Bee colleague. Though the Star's editorial staff had already been sliced from 286 to 242 before Smith arrived, the new president this month ordered a 10% staff cut. Fed up, Bellows resigned...
Working closely with tutors and carefully selecting tutors to "create a superb group of people on the House staff" is probably their most important legacy to the House, James Vorenberg said...