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...Miami he is taking an estimated $500,000 yearly profit on a $2,500,000 stake (plus $1,000,000 that eliminated the late Moe L. Annenberg's Tribune from competition); has boosted circulation from...
Three weeks ago Earl Jones purchased the Massillon Independent (circ. 11,858) for "around $400,000." The seller was Philadelphia's Walter Annenberg. Publisher Jones promptly announced that the Independent and the Zanesville News (circ. 13,006), which he started four and a half years ago, would be links of a new chain of Ohio dailies. He detailed no plans, but those who knew of his operations in Zanesville expected nothing less than revolutions...
...stick around awhile. He looks O.K." New Man. Until he went to work for the Sun last week, 45-year-old Eli Zachary Dimitman had never worked outside Philadelphia. He joined the Philadelphia Inquirer 18 years ago as rewriteman, was city editor when Moses L. (Moe) Annenberg, the racing-sheet publisher now dead, took over the Inquirer in 1936. Talent-wise Moe Annenberg at once made Dimmy executive editor...
Under Dimmy the Inquirer rapidly became a bright, aggressive paper. Dimmy changed type faces and make-up and used more pictures; he campaigned for such things as free school lunches and against such things as the public sale of fireworks. So well did Dimmy succeed that an appreciative Moe Annenberg presented him with a $1,000 platinum Swiss watch so fancy and begadgeted that, said office legend, a little man popped out of it on the hour to announce race results at Hialeah...
...shirt-sleeve editing, OWI's overseas director Robert E. Sherwood picked 29-year-old Kenneth W. Purdy, a Midwesterner who left the University of Wisconsin to become editor of the Oshkosh (Wis.) Fox Valley Free Press at 21. Then he joined the Annenberg publications, working on Radio Guide and Radio Digest. He went to Click in 1938, later went to Look, joined the Donovan Committee in November...