When smooth, silver-haired Richard Wilton Clarke went on vacation last month, he had one of the big jobs in U.S. journalism managing editor of the New York Daily News. Last week, when he got back, he had a bigger one: executive editor, secretary of the board and a director of the giant News Syndicate Co. Adman Roy Holliss, head man since Captain Joseph M. Patterson's death last spring, had been killed in an auto crash; in the reshuffling of executives that followed, Clarke's stock had gone way up (to about $150,000 a year).
Patterson had left behind him a high-ranking team...
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