Editors: Mr. Cleveland Bows Out

Ordinarily, Louis Seltzer would have been smiling. It was the end of an exhausting, satisfying week In which the Cleveland Press had run a series of touching stories about a Hong Kong reunion it had arranged between soldiers serving in Viet Nam and their Cleveland families. Yet Seltzer had tears in his eyes much of last Friday as he cleared out the last memorabilia from his office and bade his staff farewell. After half a century with the Scripps-Howard Press, and 38 years as its editor, "Mr. Cleveland" was reluctantly retiring.

His retirement was no reflection on his performance. He was...

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