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...dozen years ago, a green but confident Cleveland reporter assigned to cover the city's criminal court was scooped on a major grand jury report his very first day on the beat. Thomas Van Husen Vail did not have to worry about losing his job-his family owned the paper-but he has never forgotten the experience. "I resolved then and there," he recalls, "that not only would that never happen again, but that I would reply in kind." Now that he is editor-publisher of Cleveland's 121-year-old Plain Dealer (circ...
Unmitigated Hell. As editor-publisher, the first man to hold both titles, Vail shares command with his father, Attorney Herman Vail, who was named president earlier this year. But he has complete control over the editorial operation, which some staffers complain has been neglected in recent years. Once known as the lively showcase for Charles Farrar Brown's humorous "Artemus Ward" columns, the Plain Dealer lately has grown stodgy enough to be described as "grandmotherly." Vail aims to shuck that adjective...
...soon as Cleveland's record 129-day newspaper blackout ended last month-after carving an estimated 8% hole in the circulation of both papers-Vail got to work. He redesigned his grey editorial page, insisted on shorter editorials, and advised writers to make their point "at the front, to tell the public right off what the Plain Dealer thinks." He demanded tighter copy, claims that "as a result we have 20% more stories in the paper" Says Managing Editor Philip Porter: "The grandmother has been rejuvenated...
Sunday Sports Spectacular (CBS, 2:30-4 p.m.). Olympic ski-jumping trials from Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and downhill racing trials from Vail, Colo...
While to date, Vall's dire prognoses have been almost invariably correct for the two lower echelons, his thoroughbreds -notably Saratoga and Pink Jungle-have all too often turned turkey. Group III, with about 60% profit makers, has actually outperformed Group IV by about 10%-which is why Vail regards a Broadway opening as "the greatest suspense story ever told," and why his handicapping is less than final...