The fastest rising newspaper publisher in the U.S. is Akron's Jack Knight. His specialty is to be very practical: a registered Republican, he runs politically independent newspapers in Akron, Detroit and Chicago, and a Democratic paper in Miami. When he took over Chicago's famed Daily News a year ago, he promptly tossed out the News's "Colonel M'Cosmic" cartoons, with which the late Publisher Frank Knox had pin-pricked the Tribune's Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick. To people who asked why, Jack Knight explained, practically, that he did not believe in inheriting feuds.
Until last week Chicagoans could not be sure whether Knight was...
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