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Christian Science in the past has often seemed as sober and conservative as its best-known creation, the daily Monitor (circ. 190,000). Now there seems to be a measurable quickening of the church's missionary impulse, both at home and abroad. U.S. "branches" of the Mother Church total 2,449, up 106 in a decade, and foreign branches now number 819. Best outside guess at membership: 400,000. Forty new Christian Science clubs have been formed on U.S. college campuses...
...journalism's record book than in providing newspapers for the profit of his male descendants. Today, there are 21 Ridders to work the chain, a figure that neatly corresponds with the number of Ridder newspapers. The papers vary in size from the Aberdeen, S. Dak., American-News (circ. 21,000) to the St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch (227,000 combined). But they all have one thing in common: a Herman Ridder heir at the helm...
Frank Gianelli, sports editor of Phoenix's biggest daily, the morning Arizona Republic (circ. 148,645), loves his job but can't stand copycats. There was a copycat in town too: Phoenix's youngest daily, the seven-month-old Evening American (26,000). Gianelli noticed that whenever the Republic printed the box score of a game between big-league baseball teams now spring-training in sunny Arizona, so did the American-same box score, same head, same type, same everything...
...buyer was Gannett newspapers, a string of 15 dailies (total circ. 877,000) largely located in upper New York State. The competent Gannett papers grew fat under the laissez-faire leadership of the late Frank Ernest Gannett, who permitted his editors wide latitude to run their shows as they saw fit, even down to disputing the boss...
...Robert McLean, publisher of the Philadelphia Bulletin, plans to spend more and more time in California. Not that McLean is thinking of retiring; he has just paid out some $8,000,000 to buy the Santa Barbara News-Press (circ. 35,000) from its longtime owner, Thomas More Storke...