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This week the Gannett Washington bureau opened with a good, hardworking, conservative newspaperman as its head. Chunky, balding, cigar-smoking Cecil Bunyan Dickson is 44, a onetime cowboy, soda jerk, Marine, A.P.man, I.N.S.man and, until he took his new job, chief reporter of the Chicago Sun's Washington bureau. He is a Texas-minded John Garner man, a great friend of Speaker Sam Rayburn, and the tough, independent kind of reporter who never trades news...
News Bureau or Else. Washington newsmen wondered how stubborn Frank Gannett came to hire deceptively cherubic Cecil Dickson. The facts: at their first meeting Dickson, mindful of the arch-Republican Gannett slant, growled: "If you want to make a political bureau out of a news bureau, you had just as well not open it, and you had better look for another bureau manager. I'm not a Republican. I'm a real Jeffersonian Democrat. But I'm a newsman, nothing else . . . and if I take over any news bureau, it's going to be a news...
...publisher wondered where he could find his old pal Lord Beaverbrook, then in the U.S. Dickson picked up a phone and had the answer in two minutes, from White House sources. Gannett was impressed. Dickson looked like...
What Is News? The publisher and his new employe have one thing in common: they think the New Deal is a mess. Gannett says he wants this mess intimately interpreted. That is fine with Dickson, who has covered Washington news for 16 years, has little sympathy with the way press associations handle it. Says Dickson...
...goes well, Dickson will have three years to accomplish his aim. He has a contract (at better than $10,000 annual salary), three reporters to start with. He will also write a column three or four times a week. (Gannett editors have already rejected its proposed title: Horizons Unlimited. Too literary...