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...Washington Post, while Al Jr. is West Af rican correspondent for the New York Times. James Reston writes his New York Times column from Washington; his son Richard is the Los Angeles Times's Moscow correspondent. Red Smith writes a syndicated sports col umn that appears in the Trib; Terence Smith covers the Mideast for the New York Times. When the Washington Post bought into the Paris Trib and the New York Times international later merged with it, all of them tumbled into the same paper...
...shadow. It's a psychological problem. No proud kid wants to go and hear: 'You're Scotty Reston's son.' " But the kids don't seem to be intimidated by their fathers' reputations. "They're making it on their own," says Trib Editor Murray Weiss. "They'd all be here even if their fathers were plumbers...
...tabloid Sun-Times does not at tempt to carry as much news as the Trib, but what it does run is sharply written and attractively and conveniently presented. Directed at readers younger than the Trib's, the Sun-Times pro jects more of a personality, and Editor Emmett Dedmon's reporters are better known around town. The paper's onceover-lightly treatment of the news appeals to commuters riding buses into the city as well as to Chicago's growing Negro population. "The Sun-Times," says a onetime Chicago editor, "comes closest to being a successful...
...Trib, on the other hand, is proud of its tradition, thank you. Editor Don Maxwell, 67, was handpicked for his job by the late Colonel McCormick. Maxwell, in turn, has hand-picked his successor, Managing Editor Clayton Kirkpatrick, 52. "The Tribune is what it is today," says Maxwell, "because we have a tradition. Editor Joseph Medill instructed the directors of the Tribune in his will: 'I hope you will always be able to remain Republican but always show good sense.' I don't think the Tribune will ever become flighty. Not so long as I am here...
...three-way merger will be called the International Herald Tribune. Interest in the new venture will amount to 37% for Jock Whitney's Trib, 33% for the Times and 30% for the Post. The Trib-Post's editor, Murray M. Weiss, and its publisher, Robert T. MacDonald, will be in charge; Gruson will work with them during the period of transition, then return to Manhattan. With an expected circulation of close to 100,000, the paper will be the largest American daily ever printed outside the U.S.-but it will be put to bed each night without...