Bill and Nackey were interesting people. I met them through my FIL, socially. I recall Nackey being a lovely, elegant woman. Bill was a drinker. But he ruled the paper with an iron hand. He had a penchant for pissing people off.
Around ‘98 I would post on FR a lot of the Union Leader articles/editorials, b/c you could depend on their view. I never even read it anymore. Nothing stays the same.
He recognized what was really behind the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, and started a contest--of course interrupted by the Kennedy assassination--to identify the October crisis in 1964. (At that time, the Rockefeller crowd had not yet sabotaged Goldwater, who had drawn even with Kennedy in the polls; and we all expected a "crisis.")