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...Paris-based Trib (circ. 121,000) is no mere letter from home. It is far different from the daily described by The New Yorker's Janet Planner as "the village newspaper" of the American expatriate colony in Paris, the favorite of Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound. Increasingly it serves to inform a widespread audience about both the U.S. and the world. It is read with respect in the power centers of Europe, where English is now the second language. Nineteen copies a day go to Peking, and the Kremlin also subscribes. Editor Murray "Buddy" Weiss...
...paper last week marked the fifth anniversary of its tripartite marriage with the Washington Post and New York Times in the best editorial health of its 85-year history.* Many newsmen believe that for its slim size -14 to 16 pages-the Trib is the most readable and informative daily published anywhere...
...these characters, the bar is a spar to which they cling in the shipwreck of existence and over which they confess their hidden better selves. These confessional arias are what they have always been in Williams, eloquent trib utes to the English tongue and moving explorations of the human spirit. This is not to say that Small Craft Warnings is on a par with the durable canon of his finest plays. Here he reminds us of the size and scope of his genius, but dis plays it diminuendo. Call this then a five-finger exercise from...
...year ago, when he was promoted from Washington bureau chief to become the youngest managing editor in the Chicago Tribune's 125-year history, Russell Freeburg, then 47, seemed the certain heir to Editor Clayton Kirkpatrick, 57. His mission was to help brighten up the staid Trib and check its long circulation slide, from 868,000 to 745,000 in the past decade. Last week Freeburg resigned abruptly from one of the top jobs in journalism, explaining that he wanted "to do things faster than the corporate management wanted to move." His successor is Maxwell McCrohon, 43, an amiable...
...freeze may be necessary, said the New York Daily News, "we should resist all efforts to make it everlasting, with a swelling horde of bureaucrats striving to enforce it." The Chicago Tribune judged the freeze "probably inevitable," but warned it was "neither a guaranteed nor a permanent solution." The Trib regretted "that the two unions [steel and railroad] that triggered the freeze should escape its effects...