The Press: Trouble at Collier's

When Collier's hired gravel-voiced Louis Ruppel as editor three years ago, it knew it was buying a whirlwind. His gusty formula to cure the ailing magazine: 1) "an expose a week," 2) a drastic staff shakeup. Last week, after three years of the Ruppel treatment, the whirlwind blew itself out. Up on Collier's bulletin board went a tight-lipped announcement: "The resignation of Louis Ruppel as editor of Collier's was announced today by Clarence E. Stouch, president of the Crowell-Collier Publishing Co." Surprised staffers got no explanation of the break, but it was plain...

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