Ending one tradition and renewing another, the Washington Star's Editor Benjamin M. McKelway last week became
1) the first nonpublisher to head the Associated Press in its log-year history, and
2) the second of its four presidents to come from the Star. Ben McKelway, 62, is a softspoken, square-faced North Carolinian who started on the strait-laced Star as a reporter in 1921, has been editor of the paper since 1946, and is a onetime president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. He was elected by the A.P.'s 24-man board of directors to succeed...
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