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Under the new team of Associate Publisher Peter Kann, 41, and Managing Editor Norman Pearlstine, 41, the Journal is becoming more inclusive and expanding the editorial staff to about 400. Says Kann: "The interests of American business people are not just in profit and loss but in government, the environment, equality in society, international affairs." The Journal has begun to show more interest in popular culture: last year Arts Editor Manuela Hoelterhoff won a Pulitzer Prize in criticism, and reviews are the centerpiece of a new daily arts and leisure page. The political writing of Washington Bureau Chief Albert Hunt...
...stories focused on social change. But as economic and energy problems grew, and as other newspapers stepped up their coverage of business news, the Journal began concentrating more on its original franchise. "It's a much more topical, competitive newspaper than it used to be," says Peter R. Kann, a Pulitzer-prizewinning reporter, who became associate publisher last year. "We want to be first and best on the stories that matter to our readers...
Dieter Schepp, a nephew recently arrived from East Germany, was making his first appearance in the great pyramid in Detroit on the night of Jan. 30, 1962, when he suddenly began losing his grip on the balance pole. There came a terrible cry: "Ich kann nicht mehr halten "(I can't hold on any more). Then the pole slipped, Dieter fell, and the whole pyramid of Wallendas came apart in midair, some clinging to the wire, others plunging to the concrete floor. Dieter and another man died there; Karl's adopted son Mario was paralyzed from the waist...
...YOUNGEST CRIMSON editor with a Pulitzer is Peter R. Kann '64, who served-as the paper's City Editor. Kann joined The Wall Street Journal upon graduation, doing a number of stateside assignments before achieving the rank of foreign correspondent and being sent to The Journal's Hong Kong Bureau. It was in Hong Kong that Kann first received wind of an impending struggle between India and Pakistan, Stationing himself in the troubled area. Kann's tile forecast the India-Pakistan War and the founding of Bangladesh. In recognition of his reporting he received the 1972 Pulitzer for International Correspondence...
...punched the button on the dual-faced time clock, pulled a Parker Jotter from inside his black and white checked Hong Kong suit, scribbled the notation PK4 on his score sheet and dug in. Nearly five hours and 39 moves later, Petrosian surveyed the shattered remains of his Caro-Kann defense, stood up and shook Fischer's hand...