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...over its own vast strength. Consistently profitable and increasingly dominant in the nation's third largest city, the paper employs 530 full-time editorial staffers, including 16 correspondents in Washington, eight in other U.S. cities outside Illinois, and four abroad. Yet for a paper of its visibility, the Trib has too little impact outside its region. The staff shares the industry's enthusiasm for blockbuster features, which tend to be deftly written and slickly packaged rather than penetrating. Says Journalism Director Neale Copple of the University of Nebraska: "The paper is solid but not very exciting...
Second City, natural home of one-term Jane and Al Capone Donahue (Phil) and Banks (Ernie) Clarence Darrow, big attorney Mayor Daley, William Paley The Trib's McCormick, Ebony's Johnson Kup and Hef and Gloria Swanson City that works! No social strife! And at least one man who danced with his wife...
...between Donovan and Douglas LaChance, a convicted labor racketeer. It took place in a bar at New York City's Hotel Algonquin on the evening of Jan. 10.1978. LaChance was then head of a newspaper drivers' union that had interfered with the delivery of the New York Trib, a troubled morning tabloid that failed after publishing for a mere three months. Donovan's company had invested $370,000 in the newspaper, according to Leonard Saffir, its founder and publisher. William Casey, now director of the Central Intelligence Agency, was briefly on the Trib's board. Donovan...
LaChance's union had held up delivery of 135,000 copies of the Trib and threatened to shut it down with a full-scale strike. A court ordered the deliverers back to work, but according to Saffir it was the meeting between Donovan and LaChance at the Algonquin and the subsequent phone calls the two men exchanged that caused the drivers to resume deliveries. LaChance is now serving a twelve-year prison term for extorting $300,000 from various employers...
Rita and Robin, the two women who type with me at the Trib, take me out for coffee and tell me that Norma, my supervisor, does not like me because I am interested in doing more than typing...