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Curiosity Value. Under a new editor, former Newsweek Managing Editor John Denson, 55, the Trib is trying to find a level of its own. What that level may be is not readily discernible. Under Denson, the Trib's tidy front page, which used to win beauty prizes, has taken on the look of a parquet floor-all overblown pictures, klaxon headlines (THE LIBERTY...
...Graham does not take formal possession of Newsweek until next week, but his weight was felt even before the ink on his earnest check had dried. In as new editor went Managing Editor Osborn Elliott. 36. a 1944 Harvard graduate and former TIME writer, to replace John Denson, who resigned last month to become editor of the New York Herald Tribune. Aging Board Chairman Muir was politely shifted to a resounding but inactive new post as chairman of the executive committee of the board. Malcolm Muir Jr., 45. once heir apparent to his father's desk, was invited...
...Denson's appointment was a surprise to Trib staffers, although his name had come up nearly two years ago, the first time Multimillionaire John Hay Whitney, then U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, went hunting for an editor for the paper he had just bought. He passed over several prospects to pick Robert M. White II, 45, co-publisher of the Mexico, Mo., Ledger (circ. 9,122). White, who never quite mastered the transition from Mexico to Manhattan, resigned last November...
...Denson, a gentle fellow beneath an irascible exterior, goes for splash in editing. At Newsweek he was generally credited with the makeup technique that makes lavish use of arrows, circles and boxes, as well as pictures that make their point by having Xs drawn across faces (to indicate a man has lost power) and the unsettling practice of blowing up a man's features by cutting off his ears or his hairline. Said Denson: "Naturally, I regret leaving Newsweek after so many satisfying years...
...Tribune, Editor Denson may find his love for daily journalism put to a stern test, though he doesn't say so: "There has already been too much talk about 'saving the Tribune.' The Trib has a very sound base to operate on." Still a good daily, the Trib has fallen into an unprofitable trough between the towering New York Times (circ. 644,175), which has most of the class circulation, and the tabloid Daily News (2,021,395). The Sunday Trib is even more in need of rehabilitation - which may be one reason Whitney picked a magazine...