Legendary editor enters Hall of Fame MTD's Jerry Shaw was key industry figure for 30-plus years

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The tire industry honored one of Modern Tire Dealer's own this month as Jerome"Jerry"Shaw,longtime editor of Tires,MTD's predecessor,was inducted into the Tire Industry Hall of Fame.Shaw was inducted under the Hall of Fame's"Historical Contributors"section,as was MTD contributor and tire engineering icon Jacques Bajer.A native of New York City,Shaw was already a veteran journalist when he joined Tires in 1919."At the time,there was no publication concerned with the problems of retail tire dealers,"wrote Edward Lyman Bill,president of Tires' owner,Bill Brothers Publications,in 1954.