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After law practice in New York and North Carolina, Gray took over Winston-Salem's two newspapers and radio station, bought part interest in the Charlotte News. In 1942 came another change of sky: declining commissions, 32-year...
JAMES A. GRAY Winston-Salem...
...publisher of both the morning Winston-Salem (N.C.) Journal (circ. 49,048) and the afternoon Twin City Sentinel (circ. 33,205), Secretary of the Army Gordon Gray has a newspaper monopoly-and it worries him. Back in 1937 when he was 29 and a millionaire tobacco heir, Gray and a syndicate of big businessmen wanted to start a newspaper to compete with the Journal and Sentinel monopoly. He ended up buying the two papers for more than $1,000,000 when the owner threw in the towel. Gray still wishes Winston-Salem (pop. 90,000) could afford two independent papers...
...sole trustee, Gray sometimes takes extraordinary measures to insure something of the free discussion that competing newspapers would bring to Winston-Salem. A moderate drinker himself, Gray favors the legalization of liquor sales in dry Winston-Salem and Forsyth County. Santford Martin, 63, the Journal's tall, pink-cheeked editor, is a lifelong teetotaler and editorial crusader for prohibition. Last June, when the county decided to vote on whether to repeal prohibition, wet Publisher Gray and dry Editor Martin found themselves at odds about Journal policy. Gray decided to run pro-repeal editorials (by associate editors) in both papers...
...didn't like the tobacco business. At the University of North Carolina he was No. 1 in his class, and president of Phi Beta Kappa. At Yale he was an editor of the Law Journal. After a few years of practice as a lawyer in New York and Winston-Salem, he headed a group which bought the city's two lackluster newspapers (Winston-Salem Journal and Twin-City Sentinel), became publisher and made them successful. A self-deprecating, earnest man, Gordon Gray is the rare publisher who can say, and sound convincing, "I consider myself a trustee...