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...Manhattan's Spanish-language daily La Prensa broke the release date of an H-bomb picture by mistake. A staffer misread the date, got his paper a clear beat...
...paper work and time-wasting procedures. They have been doing the same thing the same way for so long that they resist efforts toward a speedup. A 1952 analysis showed that 27.5% of the staff were 60 or older and 37.8% were between 50 and 60. Says a veteran staffer: "Nobody ever retires from the ICC. Departure is only by death...
...save ourselves, we must . . . think anew and act anew." The sentiment was not new, but for Childs it had a special meaning. This week he quit as a political pundit for United Features, went back to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, where he had been a staffer for 18 years before leaving to start his column in 1944. United Features will continue to syndicate his P-D stories three days a week, but Childs will be paid by the PD, not the syndicate. Childs had a candid explanation for his return to the PD. Says he: "There...
...staff is nominally responsible to Editor and President J. (for John) Donald Ferguson, 63, a friendly, Missouri-born, white-thatched newsman, who, like Grant and the Journal's managing editor, started out as a railway worker. Like every other staffer, he always calls Grant "Mr. Grant." (Once he addressed him as "Boss," and Grant exploded: "That reminds me of Uncle Tom's Cabin and Simon Legree.") Editor Ferguson leaves the day-to-day operations to Managing Editor Wallace ("Chink") Lomoe, 56, a capable, hard-driving ex-state editor who came to the Journal as a reporter 25 years...
...past couple of years," said a Los Angeles Daily News staffer, "we have never known when we left at night whether the paper would be open the next day when we showed up at the office." The fear was justified: the ailing News (circ. 188,453) was losing between $75,000 and $80,000 a month. News Publisher Robert Smith thought he had found a way out of his trouble when erratic Coos Bay (Ore.) Times Publisher Sheldon F. Sackett put down a $20,000 deposit to buy the News and signed a contract...