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When he filled out the application forms for U.S. citizenship in 1963, Canadian-born Clive M. Boutilier, 32, reported that he had once been arrested for a homosexual act, but the charges were dismissed. Pressed for more details, the Manhattan building-maintenance man, who had been living in the U.S. for eight years, revealed his assorted relations with both sexes since the age of 14. As a result, Boutilier was ordered deported. Reason: the 1952 Immigration Act bars any alien with a "psychopathic personality...
...wrapped a page of Pascagoula news around the Mobile papers and started selling them in Pascagoula. The new edition, called the Mississippi Press Register, lost nearly $750,000, but the Chronicle lost heavily too. Chronicle President Ralph Nicholson decided to sell out-but not to the immediate competition. Canadian-born Publisher Lord Thomson bought the paper, then turned around and sold it to the Mobile papers for a hefty...
...Many Are Afraid." In the art of acquisition, Canadian-born Cummings has the connoisseur's touch. He likes to buy the works of recognized painters, unblinkingly paid $92,500 for Picasso's Woman with Flowers. Doing corporate deals, Cummings looks for moneymakers whose owners might like the strength and size of Consolidated. He closes deals rapidly, sometimes in just one day. "If they don't go quickly," he says, "they usually never go." He scrutinizes a prospect's book value, sales and earnings reports, also examines advertising budgets because "advertising is closely related to consumer demand...
...alarming enigma in the publishing world. With disarming candor, Thomson always admitted that he was in the newspaper business only for profit. "I buy newspapers to make money to buy more newspapers to make more money," he once announced. "As for editorial content," said the Canadian-born publisher who at 71 owns 128 newspapers and 80 magazines, "that's the stuff you separate the ads with...
...fifth cover story on post-Castro Cuba* and our second on Fidel since he came down from the hills and took over on the first day of 1959. In reporting this cover, as it happened, we did have a correspondent in Cuba-for a while. He is Gavin Scott, Canadian-born, Spanish-speaking chief of our Buenos Aires bureau, just back from his third visit to the island since 1962. This time the authorities tracked him down and packed him off, but not before he saw and heard enough to bring out a report full of new insights...