Word: yerxa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Getting ready for his return, Yerxa promised no revolution: "I won't be going to New York with any panaceas or foregone conclusions." But he suggested that he would take with him what the Trib's editorial helm has sorely lacked: "The Trib does not need any more talk about what it is going to do. The thing it needs is demonstration...
...last week announced a shift in editorial command. Out as executive editor and top-ranking man on the news side: George A. Cornish, 58, a Tribune veteran of 37 years, taking the title with him. In as the paper's new managing editor and vice president: Fendall Winston Yerxa, 46, the Trib's city editor for three years before he left the city room on 41st Street...
...More Talk. The Whitney-White choice, Fendall Yerxa, is a tall (6 ft. 4 in.), lean and dedicated career journalist, who broke into the game a year after Hamilton College on the now-defunct Minneapolis Journal in 1938, went to the Herald Tribune postwar as a reporter after a four-year combat hitch as a Marine Corps officer. He was raised to city editor in 1952, left the paper in 1955 to become executive director of the Wilmington Morning News and Journal-Every Evening (combined circ. 101,468), both owned by Christiana Securities Co., a Du Pont holding company. With...