When the San Francisco Chronicle's President and Publisher George Cameron died a fortnight ago, there was little doubt about who would be his successor. For the past three years, Cameron's nephew, Assistant Publisher Charles de Young Thieriot, 40, has been virtually running the Chronicle. Last week, as San Franciscans expected, the Chronicle's board of directors named Thieriot president, publisher and editor.
He took over a politically potent paper that has often teamed up with the Oakland Tribune of Joseph R. Knowland, Senator Knowland's father, and Norman Chandler's Los Angeles Times to pick and back...
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