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Getting ready for his return, Yerxa promised no revolution: "I won't be going to New York with any panaceas or foregone conclusions." But he suggested that he would take with him what the Trib's editorial helm has sorely lacked: "The Trib does not need any more talk about what it is going to do. The thing it needs is demonstration...
...shift in editorial command. Out as executive editor and top-ranking man on the news side: George A. Cornish, 58, a Tribune veteran of 37 years, taking the title with him. In as the paper's new managing editor and vice president: Fendall Winston Yerxa, 46, the Trib's city editor for three years before he left the city room on 41st Street...
Behind this corporate maneuver lay a story somewhat deeper and, to veteran Trib staffers, more meaningful than a routine change at the top. More than any other man at the Trib, unobtrusive, unassuming and adaptable George Cornish represented the paper's last important link with its past. Cornish's tenure spans four Tribune administrations, from the late Ogden M. Reid, who inherited the paper from his father in 1912 and ran it until his death in 1947, to John Hay Whitney, U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, who has been owner since...
While he waited, Whitney and White shopped, and the already unsteady morale in the Trib city room slumped to a new low, as uncertainty took a steady toll...
...officer. He was raised to city editor in 1952, left the paper in 1955 to become executive director of the Wilmington Morning News and Journal-Every Evening (combined circ. 101,468), both owned by Christiana Securities Co., a Du Pont holding company. With Yerxa's return to the Trib, the new top management team is complete-a fact that may calm some of the jitters in the city room...