The fight over control of the Cincinnati Enquirer appeared to have reached a truce last week. It began when Reporter James H. Ratliff Jr. and City Editor Jack Cronin charged top management with feathering its own nest at the paper's expenseand promptly lost their jobs (TIME, Dec. 5 et seq.). But last week stockholders overwhelmingly re-elected Reporter Ratliff to the Enquirer's board of directors. Assistant Publisher Eugene Duffieldone of the employees' main targetsannounced his resignation, and Publisher Roger Ferger, whose annual earnings of as much as $104,700 had come under fire, admitted...
The Press: Truce in Cincinnati
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