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...combination of television, strong suburban dailies and crippling strikes has drained those papers of readers and advertisers. Circulation of the WorldTelegram has dropped from 448,828 in 1960 to 389,291 today; in the same period, Journal-American circulation slipped from 618,802 to 535,310. The Sunday Trib (circ. 360,876), though it has been praised for its sprightliness, has been unable to make much headway against the powerful Sunday Times, with its impressive circulation of 1,337,-277. Last year the three papers lost a combined $12 million; this year they stand to lose $15 million...
...Virginia Democrat Harry Flood Byrd Jr., 51, a ringer for his famous father, who resigned in November be cause of ill health, after 32 years in of fice. "Little Harry," as he is called back home in Winchester, where he is editor of the Winchester Star (circ. 13,-000), took his father's old front-row desk for the first day, will eventually move to a back-of-the-chamber spot reserved for new members. On the House side, two new members also took the oath: Ohio Republican Clarence J. Brown Jr., 38, an Urbana publisher and radio executive...
Died. William Howland Taylor, 64, managing editor from 1953 to 1963 of Yachting, one of the biggest (circ.: 110,000) and best of the boating magazines, a onetime New York Herald Tribune staffer, who caused a journalistic sensation in 1935 when he became the first sportswriter to win a Pulitzer Prize, for his expert coverage of the America's Cup races between the U.S. and Britain; of a heart attack; in Port Washington...
...Merits. Of the two papers, the morning Republic (circ. 156,000), has changed more dramatically than the afternoon Gazette (100,000). In the last four years, the Republic has boosted its reporting staff from 65 to 100, stationed one reporter in Viet Nam while others roam, the globe. Arizona staffers have delved into such topics as poverty, the new math, smog, pornography, and corruption in the state tax commission. The paper fought successfully to save nearby scenic Camelback Mountain from private developers...
...poll that claimed 42% of all Japanese believe that the loss of South Viet Nam to Communism would have no effect on Japan, Reischauer took editors and public alike to task for "serious misapprehensions." In his new "high posture," Reischauer specifically attacked Foreign Editor Minoru Omori of Mainichi Shimbun (circ. 6,400,000), who, after watching a North Vietnamese propaganda film, declared that the U.S. had bombed a leprosarium near Hanoi "for ten days straight." First response to the Reischauer speech was indignation, but eventually Reischauer's reputation paid off. Much greater attention is now being paid...