Word: cornish
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...sent by Luigi Pirandello, entered the theater telling everyone in the audience to keep his seat until the heavy was apprehended. At the 3,000-seat Blackpool Opera House, the biggest English theater outside London, an expensive collection of British TV and variety stars was headed by Rock Cornish Singer Tommy Steele, earning $3,000 a week. "When it's Blackpool on the line for talent," says one showman, "agents automatically tack...
...carefully prepared statements, the New York Herald Tribune (circ. 347,490) last week announced a shift in editorial command. Out as executive editor and top-ranking man on the news side: George A. Cornish, 58, a Tribune veteran of 37 years, taking the title with him. In as the paper's new managing editor and vice president: Fendall Winston Yerxa, 46, the Trib's city editor for three years before he left the city room on 41st Street...
Behind this corporate maneuver lay a story somewhat deeper and, to veteran Trib staffers, more meaningful than a routine change at the top. More than any other man at the Trib, unobtrusive, unassuming and adaptable George Cornish represented the paper's last important link with its past. Cornish's tenure spans four Tribune administrations, from the late Ogden M. Reid, who inherited the paper from his father in 1912 and ran it until his death in 1947, to John Hay Whitney, U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, who has been owner since...
...caught between the towering Times (circ. 614,169) and the popular Daily News (circ. 2,026,850). In the inexperienced hands of Reid's inheritors it steadily lost position, revenue and prestige. When "Jock" Whitney's millions acquired this ailing property, the staff hopefully looked in George Cornish's direction for leadership: he was the one man who had patiently weathered all the storms between stability and decline...
...while it looked as if Cornish was the man; a year ago, Publisher Whitney put him in charge. But within months, without advising Cornish, Whitney reached out to Mexico, Mo. to bring in Robert M. White II, 44, publisher of the Mexico Ledger, as editor and president of the Herald Tribune. Said newly appointed Editor White: "George didn't know I was coming until just before I came." When Cornish heard of it, he submitted his resignation, conscientiously volunteered to stay on until Whitney found a successor...