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Denson's appointment was a surprise to Trib staffers, although his name had come up nearly two years ago, the first time Multimillionaire John Hay Whitney, then U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, went hunting for an editor for the paper he had just bought. He passed over several prospects to pick Robert M. White II, 45, co-publisher of the Mexico, Mo., Ledger (circ. 9,122). White, who never quite mastered the transition from Mexico to Manhattan, resigned last November...
...Tribune, Editor Denson may find his love for daily journalism put to a stern test, though he doesn't say so: "There has already been too much talk about 'saving the Tribune.' The Trib has a very sound base to operate on." Still a good daily, the Trib has fallen into an unprofitable trough between the towering New York Times (circ. 644,175), which has most of the class circulation, and the tabloid Daily News (2,021,395). The Sunday Trib is even more in need of rehabilitation - which may be one reason Whitney picked a magazine...
...presidential desk, but between them now are a Bible, The World Almanac, and two of Author Jack Kennedy's own books: The Strategy of Peace and Profiles in Courage. Some of the President's recent reading-Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung and New York Herald Trib-man Bob Donovan's Inside Story of the Eisenhower Administration-cluttered the big presidential desk. Beside them was the coconut shell on which Navy Lieut. Jack Kennedy had scratched a message asking for rescue after his PT boat was rammed and sunk by a Japanese destroyer during World...
Dignity for the Peanut Gallery. Field's success as a Chicago publisher is due in part to the fact that Bertie McCormick is no longer around. One of the last practitioners of firebrand personal journalism, McCormick hoisted the Trib to greatness on his own inexhaustible choler; when he died in 1955, succession passed to men who possessed neither the qualifications nor the will to carry on in the colonel's style. As the Tribune's tumult lessened, Chicagoans began to hear another newspaper voice. It belonged to Marshall Field's Sun-Times...
Watching all this from the Tribune Tower, the Trib's editors pretend unconcern. "He's got a binful of money," says Trib Editor Don Maxwell, "and so do we. We don't feel any challenge." But if the Tribune doesn't, the Sun-Times's Marshall Field Jr. does. Said he last week: "As of right now, we're in an expansion period...