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...negotiations wore on, the inevitable rumors started. Could the Trib survive the strike? New York's Mayor Lindsay assured a reporter that he had considerable doubt; Trib employees in New York and Washington echoed his concern by looking for other jobs. The word was that Columnists Walter Lippmann and Art Buchwald, anxious to hang on to a New York outlet, would sign on with the Times...
Could it be, Whitney wondered, that the unions have "concluded that they don't need us, that we are weak and not worth saving"? He did not deny that the Trib is financially weak indeed. "Maybe they think that in this pale stone," he wrote, "there is another drop to be squeezed out. There isn't. The newspapers of this city, for all the fact of the competition among them and the ancient work practices they are forced to follow, have the most expensive union contracts in the country...
...will readers have any trouble recognizing the new Herald Tribune; it is scarcely changing. Even on Sundays, when it will combine with the Journal and be edited by a Telegram man, it will still be written largely by the present Trib crew. Last week Trib men were angered by published reports that the new corporation will give the paper a time limit to turn into a moneymaker. Denying any such stipulation in the merger, the editors complained that such rumors scare off advertisers who have been growing more friendly of late. Last year Trib advertising revenue showed an encouraging...
...While the Hearst-Howard weekday mix strikes most observers as workable enough, there is no lack of skepticism about the Sunday lash-up. Jock Whitney and Bill Hearst may not fit comfortably into the same paper. All the publishers will admit is that they plan to keep the Trib's popular Sunday supplements: Book Week and the New York Magazine. The daily Trib will continue to be edited by Jim Bellows, 43, who quit as managing editor of the Miami News in 1961, joined the Trib and became editor...
...There is a long, hard way to go," says Printers Boss Bert Powers, who can be counted on not to make things any easier. Understandably anxious for support, the new papers have applied for membership in the New York Publishers Association, from which the Trib resigned last fall. But the association, is not likely to be in any rush to let them in-the last thing the other New York papers want is to be dragged into another strike. And at week's end strike talk was in the air, and strike votes were being taken...