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...Staffer (n.) : Staff correspondent...
...will be run entirely from Washington. In the shift to Washington, started more than a year ago, at least two editors will be replaced and a brand-new group of contributors will be brought in. Left behind will be Mr. New Republic himself, 62-year-old Bruce Bliven, a staffer ever since he was hired as managing editor 29 years ago by the late Editor Herbert Croly, the man who gave the magazine the prestige it has largely lost. Bliven, who became top editor in 1930 and steered the magazine through some of its best and worst days, stepped...
...lower freight rates for the Northwest, better parks and other projects which helped build up Spokane and the region. In one fiercely fought local campaign, a crank twice tried to dynamite the papers' plant. The Review also battled plans for Grand Coulee dam, but even former Staffer Dyar now admits that the dam brought "a new era of prosperity and growth" to the Northwest. Cowles built a quartet of still thriving tabloid weeklies, the Idaho Farmer, Washington Farmer, Oregon Farmer and Utah Farmer (total circ...
...already dropped some of the most cherished campaigns of the Chief and his great & good friend Marion Davies.* Less than a week after Hearst died, the Los Angeles Examiner printed its last blast against vivisection, and other papers in the chain also dropped the subject. When a Milwaukee Sentinel staffer asked, "What's our policy now on McCarthy?" Managing Editor J. J. Packman replied: "We have no policy on McCarthy. Play the story for what it's worth...
...Snatch. As an A.P. staffer for 14 years, Oatis had earned the good reputation the prosecutor damned him for. A stickler for accuracy and a digger for details, cautious, quiet Reporter Oatis had seemed just the man to put in charge of the bureau in Prague a year ago, after two chiefs had been booted out by the Czech government on trumped-up charges...