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...were directly responsible for Editor Walker's sudden resignation. One was Colonel Guy T. Visniskki, a suave, stout, egg-bald figure familiar to the office of many a sick newspaper, who turned up in the Ledger office last November to make an efficiency survey. The other was Stanley Walker himself...
Meanwhile, the Ledger, which had earned around $10,000 in 1938, last year went into the red. (Estimated loss: $160,000.) Circulation dropped from 170,792 to around 160,000. Colonel Visniskki, called in to see what could be economized, handed President George Kearney a 672-page report on Christmas Eve. President Kearney wrapped it in tissue paper, tied it with gaily colored ribbon, took it out to Gary Bok's home in the country...
Said Publisher Bok: "My wife gave me a new gun for Christmas-but the Colonel gave me both barrels." Efficient Visniskki showed him how he could save the Ledger "a staggering sum." One way: to leave the middle paper-towel rack of three in the men's washroom empty. Another way: to get rid of Stanley Walker...
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