Comments on: Bligh at UPI http://visualeditors.com/gude/2006/09/bligh-at-upi/ www.visualeditors.com/gude Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:05:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Jerry Siskind http://visualeditors.com/gude/2006/09/bligh-at-upi/#comment-225 Jerry Siskind Tue, 16 Jan 2007 01:37:35 +0000 http://visualeditors.com/gude/2006/09/bligh-at-upi/#comment-225 Second the motion to both Karl and Bruno. I started working (while in High School) for Ted at the Great Neck (LI), NY RECORD -- He edited that weekly one day a week (Monday), while working at UPI Newspictures Tues-Sat as the Managing Editor. Before I left for college at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Ted arranged for me to work at the Pittsburgh bureau during the school year, and the New York bureau as a summer replacement. Both of those tough guys were softies once you got to know them. I definitely learned a tremendous amount from both of them, and beat Grandma (aka "ROX")(the AP) many times even when I was outmanned three to one, which could happen in NY. For three summers, Ted had me working as a caption writer because he felt my writing needed improving. By the end of three summers Ted and Larry had enough confidence in me, and as a result I was running the domestic telephoto network on the night shift when the regulars went off on vacation. You couldn't beat that as a summer intern. One night, Ted was at the Olympics in Munich, and his boss -- the VP -- was at the Democratic convention in Miami. They both told me they were next!!!!! They argued it out, and we ended up alternating from Miami and Munich. Jerry Siskind Livingston, NJ Second the motion to both Karl and Bruno. I started working (while in High School) for Ted at the Great Neck (LI), NY RECORD — He edited that weekly one day a week (Monday), while working at UPI Newspictures Tues-Sat as the Managing Editor. Before I left for college at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Ted arranged for me to work at the Pittsburgh bureau during the school year, and the New York bureau as a summer replacement. Both of those tough guys were softies once you got to know them. I definitely learned a tremendous amount from both of them, and beat Grandma (aka “ROX”)(the AP) many times even when I was outmanned three to one, which could happen in NY. For three summers, Ted had me working as a caption writer because he felt my writing needed improving. By the end of three summers Ted and Larry had enough confidence in me, and as a result I was running the domestic telephoto network on the night shift when the regulars went off on vacation. You couldn’t beat that as a summer intern. One night, Ted was at the Olympics in Munich, and his boss — the VP — was at the Democratic convention in Miami. They both told me they were next!!!!! They argued it out, and we ended up alternating from Miami and Munich.

Jerry Siskind
Livingston, NJ

]]> By: Bruno Torres http://visualeditors.com/gude/2006/09/bligh-at-upi/#comment-160 Bruno Torres Sun, 05 Nov 2006 13:23:38 +0000 http://visualeditors.com/gude/2006/09/bligh-at-upi/#comment-160 Hi Karl, You hit the nail on the head with your discriptions of Ted Majeski and Larry DeSantis at UPI. Boy, what a pair. I lived in fear of both, even though I was thousand miles away in St. Louis and Chicago when I first joined UPI as a photographer. But we became great friends over the years working together at Olympics, National Conventions, baseball World Series and such. When UPI started laying off photo managers in 1985, I drove to Washington, D.C. and met with Ted and he pulled the strings, or more acurately, called my boss in Chicago, and the division boss in Dallas, and said Bruno's transferring to Houston to become a staff photographer again. He saved my skin and my famly's welfare for another eight years until the inevitable end. But by then we were in Houston where we wanted to be. Best to you, Bruno Torres, UPI Newspictures 32 years, St. Louis, Chicago, Houston. Retired Houston Chronicle. Canyon Lake, Texas Hi Karl,
You hit the nail on the head with your discriptions of Ted Majeski and Larry DeSantis at UPI. Boy, what a pair. I lived in fear of both, even though I was thousand miles away in St. Louis and Chicago when I first joined UPI as a photographer. But we became great friends over the years working together at Olympics, National Conventions, baseball World Series and such. When UPI started laying off photo managers in 1985, I drove to Washington, D.C. and met with Ted and he pulled the strings, or more acurately, called my boss in Chicago, and the division boss in Dallas, and said Bruno’s transferring to Houston to become a staff photographer again. He saved my skin and my famly’s welfare for another eight years until the inevitable end. But by then we were in Houston where we wanted to be.

Best to you,
Bruno Torres, UPI Newspictures 32 years, St. Louis, Chicago, Houston. Retired Houston Chronicle.
Canyon Lake, Texas

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