Word: starzel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Associated Press's General Manager Frank Starzel, who served as the Pantagraph's news editor 30 years ago, recalls the time he rendered a regional bank robbery nearly invisible-by playing it on Page One. Several veteran Pantagraph newsmen searched page 3 for the story, rebuked Starzel for failing to run it. The backward progress of another bank-robbery story was a capsule of the Pantagraph policy. Since the rifled bank lay outside Pantagraph territory, the news broke on Page One; as the bandits fled toward Bloomington the story fled to page 2 (area news); when police trapped...
...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...
...employee of the paper but a "private contractor who sells a racetrack service to the Post." Hearst's American and Record replied that they saw nothing wrong with their staffers earning extra money so long as "they do their own jobs." But A.P. General Manager Frank Starzel took a much stricter view. Said he: "We deem it wholly untenable for any staff member to receive anything of value from news sources . . . Each staff member must hold himself aloof from any [such] entanglement...
...taboo in every city room in the country--the peasants might not understand it. But as the year went on, and editors and publishers made evening talks to the group, it seems that the editors themselves are promoting this sort of thing. A quiet poll shows that Frank J. Starzel, general manager of The Associated Press, said vis-a-vis at 8:23 p.m., Carroll Binder, of the Minneapolis Tribune at 9:27, Barry Bingham of the Louisville Courier Journal said it twice (unclocked) and Arthur Hays Sulzberger of the New York Times at 10:22 p.m. (but the meeting...