WHO'S WHO AT THE STAR

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• Document Release Date: August 26, 2004
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: November 1, 1975
• Content Type: MAGAZINE

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Who's Who at the Star
Joe L. Allbritton, publisher, born in a
lumber company hospital in TY'Lo, Missis-
sippi, where father ran the company store.
Family moved to Houston when he was
five. Champion debater at Baylor Uni-
versity, barely passed bar exam after law
school. Switched from law to real estate
early, made first million at 33. then parlayed
entrepreneurial talents into banking, funeral
homes. more real estate. Gross assets ex-
ceed SlOO million.
Jamesj. Daly, vice president, known as an
old-fashioned, hard sell ad salesman, joined
Star early last spring. Was Post's vice pres-
ident and general manager until 1971. Had
joined Post in 1955, from old New York
World-Telegram and Sun.
Robert L. Nehon, senior vice president of
corporate affairs and Allbritton's chief aide.
Lawyer. met Allbritton when working on
Senator Edmund Muskie's campaign for
Presidency in 1972, later went to work for
him.
Willmott Lewis, Jr., vice president and
business manager, only major executive left
-it Sior with close ties to Kauffmann-Noyes
families (he's a Noyes family in-law). Con-
sidered a capable executive, has been with
Star 25 years.
James Bellows, editor, brought in by
Allbritton because of his reputation ofcreat-
ing bright, readable newspapers. Associate
editor at Los Angeles Tines since 1966, but
his reputation stems mainly from stint as
editor of the late New York Herald Tribune'
from 1962 to 1966.
Sidney Epstein, managing editor, a hold-
over from previous management. Suave.
dapper, said to have ingratiated himself
early with Allbritton on a social basis.
(Epstein's wife is Eleni. the Star's fashion
editor.) Most staffers say he's a stereotype
of an old-fashioned city editor, the kind that
loves fires.
Edwin M. Yoder Jr., associate editor,
brought in last June to bring editorial page to
life, Rhodes Scholar, bom, raised, and edu-
cated in North Carolina. spent almost entire
professional career at Greensboro (North
Carolina) News, where he was editorial-
page editor. Writings in other newspapers
and magazines established his reputation.
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