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...neighbors, young vandals hurl epithets and rocks and sometimes fire bombs. Federal Judge W. Arthur Garrity, who issues the order to integrate, is harassed by death threats. Mayor Kevin White watches his political standing disintegrate on the eve of his intended run for the presidency. Boston Globe Editor Thomas Winship sees his employees threatened, even shot at, as the paper goes after the story. Louise Day Hicks, the city council member who became the earth mother of the antibusing forces, stands by helplessly as her movement turns savage. Humberto Cardinal Medeiros, Archbishop of Boston, perceived as an outsider because...
Janeway had a tough act to follow. Over two decades, former Editor Thomas Winship had turned the Globe from a provincial, flatly written paper into a nationally respected, crusading publication that won eleven Pulitzers. An open, gregarious man, Winship nurtured scores of talented writers, who came to look upon him as Father Globe. Any successor would suffer in comparison, but Janeway, the paper's former Sunday managing editor, seemed especially resented. An editor of the Atlantic Monthly for eleven years before joining the Globe in 1978 as editor of its Sunday magazine, Janeway was considered an interloper by many longtime...
...smooth the transition, Janeway has tried to rely on Winship's lieutenants, some of whom had been Janeway's rivals for the top job. But Managing Editor Matthew Storin, who ran the day-to-day operations during Winship's last year, yielded his authority reluctantly. In June, Janeway sounded out Storin about becoming Washington bureau chief. Instead, the well- regarded Storin resigned...
AMID ALL THE glowing reports of an economic recovery over the past two years, this comment by former Boston Globe editor Thomas Winship seems to be a bit out of place. The majority of news about the American economy centers on the positive effects that supply-side policies and Paul Volcker's tinkering with the money supply have had on big business. What the public doesn't hear about is the bitter aftertaste the "recovery" has left with larger numbers of people in the country who are just now beginning to realize the sham of the so-called economic boom...
...Winship told a group of journalists last weekend in Baltimore--only the "upper half of society" benefits from a revitalized national economy. While the public hears stories of an American economy growing at an unprecedented rate, this much-touted prosperity contains within it crucial contradictions...