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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last week Grants's two long-distance lines buzzed with calls from all over the U.S. Most of its 17 bars all proudly displayed ore samples. Advertisements for mining machinery and Geiger counters poured in on Clyne A. Bailey, editor of the weekly Grants Beacon (circ...
...Newark (N.J.) News (circ. 257,000) one day last week, Editor Lloyd M. Felmly studied some advance proofs of the comic strip, Rex Morgan, M.D., and came to a sharp decision. He killed the strip, in its place ran an explanation: future sequences "dealt with an attempted mercy killing and had no place on this comic page...
Mystery Man. Actually, none of the 235 papers (combined circ. 27 million) which print Rex Morgan should have been surprised at his new adventure. In the 2½ years since the strip first appeared, Rex Morgan's concern with the problems of medical life has prompted him to take up questions that old-fashioned cartoonists and some editors might well think "had no place" on a comic page. But for its sharp and accurate commentary on medical problems, Rex Morgan, M.D. has won the admiration of medical men across the land...
Every quarter-century since 1850, the owners of the Portland Oregonian (circ. 219,442) have marked the anniversary of its founding with long histories of the paper and nostalgic backward looks at the growth of the Northwest. Though the Oregonian and its surroundings changed greatly through the years, its ownership did not. It stayed in the hands of descendants of early (1860) Owner Henry Lewis Pittock and his longtime editor, Harvey Whitefield Scott...
Last week, as the Oregonian celebrated its 100th anniversary, it was the owners' turn to change. For more than $5,000,000 in cash, they sold all their stock to short (5 ft. 3 in.) Samuel I. Newhouse, 55, able owner of the Harrisburg (Pa.) News (circ. 85,363) and Patriot (circ. 31,249), the Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald-Journal (circ. 126,179) and Post-Standard (circ. 77,970) and a string of five other Eastern dailies. Said Newhouse happily: "Most of my papers were sick when I got them. The Oregonian is the first that is at the height...