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The Times muffed its last real chance when the Scripps brothers let Editor Bill Townes quit because they were unwilling to back up his robust, crusading news policy (TIME, March 15, 1948). It was the same policy that E. W. ("Lusty") Scripps, grandfather of Ed and Jim, had used to...
Said Editor Paul T. Busselle, who joined the Times 20 years ago and succeeded Townes: "I guess people are right when they laugh at me for calling it the 'news paper game.' It isn't a game any more, it's too much of a business...
Almost overnight, the namby-pamby Tacoma Times had turned into a crusading newspaper (TIME, Feb. 16). Many Tacomans, unused to forthright journalism, were confused by the new style. In an editorial, Editor William A. Townes tried to straighten them out.
Editor Townes was asking his bosses as well as his readers. When he took over six months ago, Owners Ed and Jim Scripps had promised Townes free rein. But cautious Publisher Frank W. Power was against crusades; they might hurt business. Townes asked the Scripps Brothers to back him up...
He went west as editor of the Seattle Star, switched to the Tacoma Times just before the Star winked out in a forced sale last year (TIME, Aug. 25). The Scripps brothers, down to the last four links of a western chain that once had eleven papers, invited him (at...