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...head of unemployment rolls for long. Former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, 69, and former Tory Party Leader lain Macleod, 50, have found new grubstakes on Grub Street, as Britons call the publishing world. Macleod, a onetime bridge columnist, will become editor of the prestigious Tory-lining weekly, Spectator (circ. 48,000), where he can plump for his alternative-to-Home party line. Macmillan will become board chairman of Manhattan's St Martin's Press, a wholly-owned subsidiary of his family's London publishing firm. He succeeds his son, Maurice, 42, who is leaving to join...
...editor of London's biggest Sunday newspaper was quite definite about it. Said Stafford Somerfield of the News of the World (circ. 6,484,445): "Neither Mr. Churchill nor any other writer decides where in the paper a story shall go. That is the editor's responsibility." But Randolph Frederick Edward Spencer Churchill, 52, the World's political columnist, was definite too. He did not want his interview with Britain's new Prime Minister, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, to get second billing to a story on traffic problems. Result of the argument: Randolph's resignation...
...that the dailies, after unsuccessfully trying to distribute on their own, should turn again to Hachette. Soon Hachette was delivering 80% of all newspapers. This virtual monopoly may have encouraged Hachette to get into newspapering on its own. Today it overshadows Paris' afternoon newspaper field, with France-Soir (circ 1,350,000), and Paris-Presse (150,000), Hachette also publishes three Paris weeklies, ranging in size from France-Dimanche's 1,400,000 to Le Nouveau Candide...
Hard by the Tees. This raffish end product of Britain's welfare state was born in the mind of a onetime butcher's helper who strayed into the graphic arts quite by chance. Britain's largest daily, the London Daily Mirror (circ. 4,631,000), wanted to woo Northern English readers with a new comic strip set in that grimy part of the island, and Freelance Artist Reginald Smythe just happened to be available for the job. Smythe had grown up in the north of England, in an industrial blight called Hartlepool, hard by the River Tees...
Cowles challenge by starting a Valley edition (circ...