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...never fancied himself a domineering press lord. Preferring to call his papers a group, not a chain, he encourages local autonomy, and his papers make the most of it. The Detroit Free Press (circ. 605,000), the Miami Herald (369,600), the Charlotte Observer (177,950), the Akron Beacon Journal (178,147), the Charlotte News (63,772) and the Tallahassee Democrat (29,300) are all increasing their circulation and are highly profitable. With interests in one television and three radio stations as well as three Florida weeklies, the group's total revenues reached $123 million...
Knight's dailies are all locally oriented. "I would rather miss the big national story," says Beacon Journal Publisher and Executive Editor Ben Maidenburg. "The reader is going to get that on TV or the New York Times or the newsmagazines. I would rather get that Rotary Club meeting or the Junior Chamber of Commerce story instead." That fits in with Knight's thinking. "It is our obligation to print a lot of local news," he says. "We do very well at it; sometimes, I must confess, to the point where I feel it is boring." To report...
Dissenters Wanted. Knight encourages all his papers to take strong positions on political issues. They are free to disagree with him and among themselves. In the 1962 Ohio gubernatorial campaign, the Beacon Journal supported Democratic Candidate Michael Di Salle. Editor Maidenburg, who dissented, was permitted to run his own signed editorials backing Republican James Rhodes, the eventual winner...
...EYES OF THE BEACON STREET UNION (MGM). Among today's sound-saturated rock groups, The Beacon Street Union is refreshingly rare: it recognizes the existence of twin stereo speakers and utilizes them to separate its music into two compatible components. In the bittersweet My Love Is, soft cymbal brushings flick back and forth between the speakers to tickle the listener's ears. Beautiful Delilah starts with vocals out of the left speaker, then switches to the right, while rhythm and piano ricochet right and left; Sportin' Life, featuring a slow, dusky guitar, is a bluesy sound that...
...match the Boston School Committee's influence in rousing Roxbury to anger. By most accounts, the community first came alive in the spring and summer of 1965. That spring, Roxbury's Reverend Vernon Carter kept a month-long vigil at the entrance of the School Department at 15 Beacon St., dramatizing the issues of de facto segregation and poor ghetto schooling...