When Stanley Walker, sometime of the New York Herald Tribune, retired to his native Texas ten years ago, he had a place as Manhattan's most celebrated city editor since the New York Evening World's hard-boiled Charles E. Chapin* and one of the few city editors in newspaper history who could write a decent paragraph. Last week, a successful rancher and freelancer at 57, Walker turned up in Dallas, 140 miles from his ranch, at the Southwest Journalism Forum. In a rattle of pronouncements on the state of U.S. journalism, he proved as tart as...
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