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From Northeastern Penitentiary in Pennsylvania emerged newspaper-and-dope-sheet Publisher Moses Louis Annenberg, a sick man (low blood pressure and heart disease) on parole. He had served 23 months of his three-year sentence for income-tax evasion...
...meat bill was too costly. In 1933 Stepson-in-law John C. Martin sold the New York Post (for which Curtis had paid $1,620,000 in 1923) to J. David Stern. Two years later the Philadelphia Inquirer (cost, in 1930: $18,000,000) was sold to Moe Annenberg, famed ex-Hearst tough guy, now in jail for income-tax evasion...
...reliable" should be an outstanding success does not mean that its journalistic sins are profitable. The Tribune's success can be laid to other factors than its news. It has always had a great and tough circulation department, perfected by that wizard of circulation, the late Max Annenberg, who fought Hearst with almost gangster methods, and carried on by Max's blasphemous brother-in-law, Louis Rose. No small credit for the Tribune's fat profit belongs to Business Manager W. E. Macfarlane...
...Batchelor. Her managing editor, 39-year-old Harold A. Davis, came from the Daily News, as did several Newsday reporters. In the last elections she borrowed the Daily News idea of a "Battle Page."* Her biggest help came from the Daily News's late great promotion wizard, Max Annenberg. Max coached her on all the tricks of the trade, got her a general manager, William Mapel, ex-managing editor of the Wilmington (Del.) Morning News and Journal-Every Evening, regretted he could not also give her Daily News features because their territory overlapped...
...best women golfers in the U.S. include Helen Silleck Holleran (co-owner of the New York Yankee baseball empire), Sylva Annenberg Leichner (niece of Publisher Moe Annenberg) and Grace Amory (ex-stepsister of Turfman Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt). Last week in Brookline, Mass., these gold-spoon golfers and no other top-flight amateurs matched strokes for the Women's Golf Championship...