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...letter was addressed to then Associated Press General Manager Frank Starzel in reaction to an AP story about 12 Arizona prisoners volunteering for medical experiments...
Gallagher takes charge of a wire service that expanded by 25% during Frank Starzel's 14-year tenure. A cooperative, the A.P. has a total membership of 8,620, including some 4,500 publications and broadcasting stations abroad. U.S. membership: 1,400 daily newspapers, 350 weekly newspapers and other publications, 2.371 radio and TV stations. United Press International, the other U.S. wire service, claims a total clientele of 6,569, including 2,087 outside...
...given 33 years to the Associated Press, and it's been very demanding,'' said Frank J. Starzel. "I can illustrate it best by repeating something one of my children said to my wife some years ago: 'Is there anything wrong with Daddy? He's going to be home for Thanksgiving.'" Last week the A.P.'s Starzel took a step that will assure him Thanksgivings at home from now on. At 58, seven years short of compulsory retirement age, he is leaving his post as general manager of the world's largest wire...
...Starzel's retirement came as no surprise to A.P. President Benjamin M. McKelway, who was notified of his intent three years ago. As Starzel's successor, the board of directors quickly-and predictably-chose his own second-in-command: Wes Gallagher, 51, a tall, spare and unflamboyant A.P. veteran of 25 years' experience. who has been assistant general manager since...
...then a careless Pantagraph printer may space out a short front-page column with a local item, but no printer commits the sin twice. Besides Frank Starzel, about the only Pantagraph editor to break the Page One rule was Adlai E. Stevenson, one of the five grandchildren and heirs of the late Pantagraph publisher William O. Davis. During a short hitch as assistant managing editor years ago, Stevenson (who is still a major stockholder in the Pantagraph) dared to put an area story-of a southern Illinois tornado -on the front page...