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While suburban and rural dailies multiply, an acid bath of high production costs and TV competition is corroding the strength and numbers of the metropolitan press. The attrition is so great that newsrooms often buzz with rumors about what paper will be next to go. One such tale got out of hand last week in Detroit, where, ever since 1932, John S. Knight's morning Free Press (circ. 550,000) has had no rival at the city's breakfast tables. Detroit buzzed with so many stories about the Free Press being on the block that Publisher Knight finally...
...Amidst a buzz of rumors, the Cleveland Museum of Art paid an estimated $550,000 in 1959 for Rubens' Diana and Her Nymphs Departing for the Chase. Last week Oil Billionaire Jean Paul Getty said he had gambled more than $400,000 that Cleveland has a fake. New Year's guests at Getty's Sutton Place mansion near London saw, on a wall of pale green silk, an 8-ft. by 6-ft. canvas that Getty said was the real Diana and Her Nymphs. And it is generally acknowledged that Rubens never painted the same subject twice...
Seattle's excited buzz had nothing to do with the Christmas holidays: the city was in the frantic final stages of preparing for the 1962 Seattle World's Fair, which will open next April for a six months' run, attracting some 7,500,000 tourists (hopefully, as many as 10 million), to the Pacific Northwest...
...Twist Her (Bill Black's Combo; Hi Records). One of the reigning twist bands demonstrates how it's done in a dozen numbers (Hucklebuck, Royal Twist, Twisteroo) that sound as different from one another as a buzz saw played at different speeds. But bestseller bound...
From early indications, personnel is extremely promising. The men to watch, if one must pick and choose at this early date, are van-Schalkwyk, Buzz Miller, Dick Shulman, Dave McGugan, and Charlie Whitman in the scrum, and behind them, backs Dick Baker, Bill Mares, Ian Pasley-Tyler, and Al Rutan...