George Pyle: It matters who is in the room when decisions are made

People become journalists so they can see history being made.And to learn that, sometimes, it just depends on who is in the room.In the summer of 1976, I was there when one of the best newspaper writers I ever knew, Dorothy Melland (do I say that because later I married her daughter?) told the local institution named Stuart Awbrey, publisher of The Hutchinson (Kansas) News, that it was time for The News to stop referring to women by their husbands’ names. As in calling someone Mrs. John Sm