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...daily circulation of about 351,000, has returned little profit to its new owner, John Hay Whitney, U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. This week, in the hope that what has been good for the thriving Mexico Ledger might also be good for the ailing Trib, "Jock" Whitney announced the surprise choice of Robert Mitchell White II, 44. as president and editor of the Herald Tribune...
...Herald Tribune, owned for years by the Reid family, but recently taken over by U.S. Ambassador to Britain John Hay Whitney. Did Reid think he had "worked" his way up to his position as publisher? Well, he had worked on general assignment for a year, been responsible for the Trib's European edition for six years. Had not the paper lost $800,000 last year? Reid admitted it was "in the red." Asked Fulbright sarcastically: "In view of this outstanding success, why did Mr. Whitney determine to let you out of the paper?" Reid said he himself had made...
Binoculars & a Bus. These quotes, startling from an executive of Chicago's tight-lipped underworld, made lively front-page reading in the Chicago Tribune last week. They could have been reaped only by the Trib's Sandy Smith, who knows the mob's pecking order better than most hoods, and far better than any other police reporter in town...
Ever since 1952, when the Trib assigned him to a series on Chicago-area gambling, Smith has relentlessly followed the mob. With a fellow Trib reporter, he crouched for days in a car near Chicago's taxicab union headquarters, discovered-by the simple reportorial expedient of training binoculars on the visitors, and now and then riding a city bus past the building for a close-in gander-that it was crawling with thugs, hoods and hired guns. Their nine-part expose mercilessly pinned Joey Glimco as the leader of this unsavory band, nominated Glimco for repeated uncommunicative appearances before...
Last year, when John Hay Whitney, U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, took control of the Trib, the management began to take a different approach to hiring, firing and promotion. Fortnight ago, with enthusiastic staff approval, Day City Editor Richard West (Harvard '29), a veteran Trib hand who had been passed over for promotion three times, was moved up to the city editor's slot. Last week Executive Editor George Cornish-the same man who fired Woodward for "Whitey" Reid in 1948-fired Sports Editor Cooke. His successor: Rufus Stanley Woodward (Amherst...