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...victory was largely a personal one for Plain Dealer Publisher Thomas Vail, 41. A great grandson of the paper's founder, he has been the last remaining member of his family to show much interest in the daily. From the time he joined the paper in 1957, he has worked in all departments; when he became editor in 1963, he phased out oldtimers whose pace had faltered and went on a youth kick. He increased the edit staff to 50, most of them reporters in their 20s. More important, he infected them with his own enthusiasm for their paper...
Grooming Babushkas. They were soon turning Cleveland upside down, each hoping to win the impulsive Vail reaction to a story well done: "Terrific, just terrific!" Investigative reporting became the order of the day. Lawyers were shown to be collecting large fees from estates without heirs. Wretched conditions at children's welfare homes were exposed. One reporter posed as a Skid Row bum in order to find out who was stealing food from state-supported shelters. Vail created a department of urban affairs, sent its editor to study at Northwestern University for three months. He hired a fashion reporter from...
When the paper was sold to Sam Newhouse last year for $50 million, there was worry that Vail's stride would be broken by the press lord's well-known preoccupation with the balance sheet. But that has not happened. Newhouse has appeared at the Plain Dealer only once since he bought it and has not followed his usual practice of holding down editorial staff. He obviously has no fault to find with a paper that has been increasing its circulation about 10,000 a year...
...candidates for public office. That is a role the present management has chosen to forgo. "By playing kingmaker," says Editor Thomas L. Boardman, 48, "we were weakening the role of the parties and the democratic process." So, by choice, the Press delayed its endorsement for mayor last year while Vail became chief supporter of the victorious Negro candidate, Carl Stokes...
...exhibition ski jump in Switzerland, Jean-Claude shocked spectators by dropping his trousers in midair. He once left a Volkswagen parked in the middle of an Italian hotel lobby, and three years ago, just for laughs, he and some buddies fired off revolvers on the main street of Vail, Colo...