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Monopoly on Merit. "This town can't support seven newspapers," says New York Newspaper Broker Vincent J. Manno. "If you added all seven together, you wouldn't come out with a net profit of $2,000,000 a year." To Scripps-Howard's Roy Howard (World-Telegram & Sun) and William Randolph Hearst Jr. (Journal-American, Mirror), the cost of keeping their papers going is worth it just for having New York as a prestige outlet for their chains...
Accent on News. These laments strike no nearer the heart of New York's newspaper problem than Broker Manno's statement that seven newspapers are more than New York will support. For not even seven newspapers may be enough for a city with a potential metropolitan-area readership exceeding 9,000,000. This possibility has occurred to New York Times Publisher Orvil Dryfoos. although he puts it another way. "We're successful," said he, "because of the emphasis we put on the first syllable in the word 'newspaper.' There is ample room for serious treatment...
Chunky Fan Dale Blasingame, 49, a moderately successful grape broker, glanced around the stands at Fresno, Calif.'s Roosevelt High one day last spring and grinned happily. Scattered among the gum-chewing, chattering teenagers were 30 older but equally familiar figures. To Dale Blasingame, those men meant money in the bank. Every one was a major league scout, and every one was sizing up Dale's 6-ft. 2-in., 185-lb., 17year-old son Wade. "I'm in the business of analyzing values," says Blasingame, "and I had a good idea of what the market...
Martin H. O'Brien, 35, is a former insurance broker with a wife and six children; George C. Randol, 30, was a copy editor on the San Francisco Chronicle; the other four are 26-year-olds-ex-Paratrooper Thomas R. Keene, Graduate Student (in philosophy) Roger E. Armstrong. Youth Counselor Joseph E. Fresques, High School Teacher Thomas P. Grace. Each of them plans to work in two neighboring parishes, giving in each a series of 24 lectures four times a year, as well as following up on converts and getting to know the parishes and their people...
From the Wastebasket. Sometimes in passages, sometimes in no more than a phrase, the book contains the entire Lowry life and legend. He was the rebel son of a prosperous English cotton-broker father, and he shipped to the Far East as a deck hand at 17 after reading O'Neill's Moon of the Caribbees. The publisher lost the sea novel, Ultramarine, that Lowry wrote about his voyage, and Lowry rewrote the book from notes fished out of a Cambridge roommate's wastebasket. After graduating with honors in English, he drifted to Hollywood, New York...