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First to die was Jean-Hubert Poggi, 38, of the daily Dépêche d'Algérie (circ. 50,000). A gentle giant of a man who was born in Algiers and lived alone on the edge of the casbah, Poggi ignored the advice of friends that he move to a safer place. "The Moslems know me," he said, "and I know them." But that did not stop one of his neighbors from putting a bullet through Jean-Hubert Poggi's brain. Next was a reporter for Paris' Le Figaro, Jean-Claude Dadant...
...Jimmy can't expect me to stand up and praise him for the crooked life he's led," wrote the father of Murderer-Rapist James Hanratty (TIME, March 2) in London's Daily Express (circ. 4,328,524). Elsewhere in the paper, the girl Hanratty raped relived her travail: "I thought he wouldn't do it. I thought it could never happen, that I was dreaming." London's Sunday Pictorial (5,306,246) weighed in with first-person accounts from the beautician who dyed the fugitive killer's hair, and from other members...
...under hire by some newspaper face an irresistible impulse to embroider the truth for the sake of tomorrow's headlines. And Britain's checkbook journalism has inspired in the heart of many a felon the conviction that crime does pay. Said Stuart Campbell, editor of the People (circ. 5,450,727): "It's getting to the point that when you ask anyone the color of his hat, he says, 'Six quid and I'll start talking...
...early 1950s only one U.S. daily newspaper, the Opelousas. La., World (circ. 10,468), ran on web offset presses...
Today. 42 dailies (and 431 weeklies) are printed by offset, among them Phoenix's Arizona Journal (circ. 54,000). born last month. Some papermakers now produce a special grade of newsprint, appropriately called "O" for offset...