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Conniff handled his callers with the good humor, occasional exasperation and unflagging optimism of a man delighted to be back on the job. The new paper, he conceded, would combine most of the features of the three papers it absorbed: the Herald Tribune, the World-Telegram, the Journal-American. "We're not going to emulate any one of them," said Conniff, as he planned for an eight-column layout with abundant white space on weekdays, a six-column page on Sundays. "This paper will look like itself...
Target date for the first issue of New York's new afternoon newspaper, the World Journal, is April 25. The only way the date can be met, said Matt Meyer, president of the new publishing company, World Journal Tribune, Inc., is for the newspaper unions to cooperate. "In our judgment," wrote Meyer in a letter to World-Telegram employees, "the merger is the only way we can create a publishing force which will endure in New York and, at the same time, make employment available to the largest number of people who presently work for our papers." Similar letters...
...trouble recognizing the old Journal-American and old World-Telegram in the new World Journal. Except for Murray Kempton and one or two others, most of the two papers' apparently inexhaustible supply of columnists will somehow find elbow room. In editorial command will be the kind of balanced ticket (Irish, Jewish, Italian) that is the delight of city politicians: Editor Frank Conniff, now Hearst national editor; Managing Editor Paul Schoenstein, now Journal-American managing editor; and Assistant Managing Editor Louis Boccardi, now World-Telegram assistant managing editor...
...afternoon paper, the World Journal, will replace Hearst's Journal-American and Scripps-Howard's World-Telegram & Sun. Editorial boss will be Frank Conniff, 52, Hearst's national editor, columnist and one-third of the "task force" that has won a Pulitzer Prize for its interviews with world leaders. According to present plans, the World Journal will concentrate on its home town and carry more local news than either of the papers it replaces. It is inheriting far more columnists than it can handle, but after trimming the list it will encourage guest columns from public figures...
...Bahamas," said a Hearst spokesman. "Bill Hearst is in Florida, and he's going to San Francisco from there. I don't think there would be a merger without those two around, do you?" Probably not, but all indications are that Whitney, Hearst and the World-Telegram's Jack Howard have finally got down to business and hammered out agreement on issues from staff to space allotment. Hearst's Frank Conniff is slated to be editor of the afternoon paper; two-thirds of the present Journal-Telegram staffs will be kept. The paper will be printed...