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...that elevated him from his lowly 1947 status as an unemployed Hollywood publicity agent. His publications still reflect his basic tenet. They are aimed at the active "hobby enthusiast." Their information is reliable, their illustrations are informative, and above all, they speak their aficionados' lingo. Hot Rod (monthly circ. 770,000), for example, is for the flat-out pro. "If you don't know a hemi from a zoomie, you're not ready for Hot Rod," says Managing Editor Don Evans...
Died. Kamel Mrowa, 54, U.S. missionary-educated Lebanese publisher whose daily Al-Hayat (circ. 22,000) ranks as the leading voice of responsible Arab nationalism, scorning Nasser's adventurous leftist socialism; of gunshot wounds inflicted by a pro-Nasser bank messenger; in Beirut...
...Helen Vlachos. In a country where it is a tradition that nobody listens to the opinions of a woman, everybody listens to Helen. One of Greece's most important publishers, the 54-year-old iconoclast puts out the nation's second-largest and best newspaper, Messimvrini (circ. 90,000), and the fifth-largest Kathimerini (56,000). She also publishes Greece's biggest picture magazine, Eikones, as well as a vast number of paperback books...
...Attwood will spend most of his time running the editorial side of Look, which now has a circulation of 7,604,000 and advertising revenues of $79.5 million. He will also have a hand in supervising Cowles's other magazines: Family Circle (circ. 7,500,000), a monthly that contains women's features and household tips, and is sold mainly in supermarkets; The Insider's Newsletter (circ. 165,000), a short weekly analysis of the news; Venture (circ. 157,000), a bimonthly travel publication that was begun in 1964 and is not yet making money. Cowles...
...days later a big Paris weekly, France Dimanche (circ. 1,300,000), devoted its entire front page to pictures of Olivier and hinted that the boy was dying of leukemia. He was not. His mother obtained a court order confiscating the entire press run of the France Dimanche issue; the court tongue-lashed the photographer for his "veritable aggression," and the newspaper for its "intolerable invasion of the private life of the Philipe family." Though the $8,000 in damages will probably not make an appreciable dent in France Dimanche's pocketbook, it certainly serves notice on the French...