Word: winship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...left on Newspaper Row. Every day, for 86 years, an employee of the Globe had climbed a ladder propped against the building and posted headlines on a wooden signboard. Early last month a final bulletin went up: "Globe says goodbye to Newspaper Row." Last week Globe Editor Larry Winship was proudly showing Massachusetts newsmen the four-color presses in his paper's new $12 million building in nearby Dorchester; and, for the first time since 1860, Washington Street was without a daily newspaper...
Longevity may be partly to blame. Of the Globe's 1,500 employees, 398 have been with the paper for more than 25 years, 30 for more than 50. Globe Editor Larry Winship has fired only one editorial staffer* in 44 years. Whatever the cause, says one managing editor, "we have too many 9-to-5 reporters. For every five people on your staff, you have one newspaperman. The others are hanging on his back...
...According to Globe legend, a man whom Winship overheard calling another "You dirty Jew." Winship fired him on the spot...
July 25, 1938: Puerto Rican Governor Blanton A. Winship target of bullets during revue. Col. Luis Irizarry killed, several Nationalists convicted...
...Coca-Cola's Robert Winship Woodruff...