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Quaint as that query may sound to an American, the impending shutdown of the venerable Times and Sunday Times of London is no footling affair to an Englishman. The gloom among Britain's Establishment could be as thick as suet pudding if the Times (circ. 293,000)-the nation's newspaper of record and the favorite forum of impassioned letter writers -suspends publication this week, as now seems likely. Equally wretched will be the 1.4 million readers who look to the Sunday Times for its weekly compendium of news coverage and lively analysis...
...days later, Penthouse Publisher Bob Guccione stopped Viva (circ. 361,000), the women's magazine he launched the same year New Times was born...
Hirsch, who was publisher of New York magazine from 1967 to 1971, will remain at MCA to scout new magazine opportunities for the firm and publish Runner (circ. 85,000), a monthly he launched earlier this year for devotees of that very '70s pursuit. Editor Larsen, a former TIME bureau chief and writer, will stay on for a while as Runner's editor. The rest of New Times' mostly young 17-member editorial staff will probably have drifted to other jobs by the time the magazine's last issue hits newsstands Dec. 11. That issue...
...breasted pinups. The format, rooted in the 19th century penny press and perfected in the frothy wake of the swinging '60s, now dominates British newsstands. The leading exponents of the "tits and bums" genre, as it is known on Fleet Street, are Publisher Rupert Murdoch's Sun (circ. 4 million) and the Daily Mirror (circ. 3.9 million). Each is fondled by twice as many customers a day as all four of Britain's major quality dailies combined. Total circulation for the Times, Daily Telegraph, Financial Times and Guardian is 2.1 million...
...last week Britain got another T. and B. tabloid, a near clone of the Sun and Mirror. Express Newspapers Ltd., publishers of the once middlebrow and increasingly titillating Daily Express (circ. 2.5 million), launched the 32-page Daily Star (initial circ., 1.25 million). Selling for 6p (roughly 12?), slightly less than the Sun and the Mirror, the Star is being printed on underused Express presses in Manchester and distributed only in the North and the Midlands for the moment. Penetration of the rest of England is planned for the spring. Says Star Editor in Chief Derek Jameson...