At 79, famed Tarheel Editor Josephus Daniels last week staged a spry comeback on his lively, incomplete, partisan, aggressive, successful Raleigh News & Observer. After a nine-year absence (as Ambassador to Mexico) shrewd old "Uncle Joe" Daniels had "enlisted for the war" to replace his son Jonathan, who went to OCD in Washington.
By contrast to his smart, facile son Jonathan, wrinkled old Editor Daniels, in his black planter's hat and elder-statesman tie, was a figure who easily evoked oldtime reminiscences. A full-fledged editor at 18, he had tangled in many a garrulous crusade against North Carolina railroads, tobacco and power companies....
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