Baillie for Bickel

For 28 years Karl August Bickel has been gathering and selling news, for twelve of those years as the able, ubiquitous president of United Press. Newsgathering is a tough job and Karl Bickel was determined not to die in harness. Said he once: "This is a young man's business. No man over 50 has the right to be the active head of a press association." Last year he began to ail and last week, at the age of 53, he resigned the U. P.'s presidency.

Into his place bounded hard-driving Hugh Baillie, executive vice president. Lean, bristle-haired, Hugh Baillie talks like a drill sergeant, moves like a football halfback. For a year he has shouldered most of the presidential responsibilities at U. P.'s Manhattan headquarters. By Karl Bickel's age formula. President Baillie's tenure should be six years.

Unconfirmed but unsinkable last week was a rumor that Karl Bickel was wanted by the Scripps-Howard newspapers, whither two onetime U. P. presidents, Roy Wilson Howard and William W. Hawkins, had gone before him.

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