Word: waldrop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Liquidated. In New Bern, N.C., after Hurricanes Connie and Diane roared over his land. Harlowe Waldrop advertised in the local Sun-Journal: "Have some waterfront property previously listed by the foot or acre, now reduced and offered by the gallon...
...office door reads "Colonel Robert R. McCormick" (staff members slyly salute as they pass), but the room behind it is seldom used. The colonel has been in Washington less than half a dozen times since he took command. Officially, the paper's top editorial brass hat is Frank Waldrop, longtime executive editor. Waldrop insists that Tribunizing the T-H is his own idea and that he sold McCormick on it. But Washington newsmen believe that Bertie's mouthpiece in the capital is really Walter Trohan, chief of the Tribune's Washington bureau. They say Trohan was offered...
Carbon Copy. Onstage, the Times-Herald was almost a completely new show. One of the new regime's first acts was to turn Page 3-the "rape and murder page"-into a stodgy collection of straight news. Says Waldrop: "We want to be a little bit stuffy." But as the paper began to look more & more like a carbon copy of the Tribune, staff morale ebbed. Many Times-Herald veterans quit, among them the sport editor, editorial cartoonist, picture editor, and night city editor...
...wanted to send someone else down here from Chicago, but they told me I was the only one who could handle the job." He would handle it from Tribune Tower, he said, commuting back & forth to Washington. His on-the-spot deputies would be T-H Executive Editor Frank Waldrop and Business Manager Willard Shelton, both veterans of the late Cissy Patterson's regime...
...Editor Waldrop didn't have much of a point. In World War II, censors snipped out violations of security. But they sent along letters telling of just such incredible exploits, although they were often aware that they came from rear-echelon soldiers trying to impress the folks back home. The armed forces called such letters "snow jobs," (i.e., piling it on), and most newspapers checked such letters before printing them. In failing to do so, the Times-Herald got trapped in the snow...