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...husband. The Beaver thought that the public might consider the trip in bad taste, but one of his guests demurred. "I don't think so," said Arthur Christiansen, who had just retired after 24 years as editor of Beaverbrook's biggest newspaper, the London Daily Express (circ. 4,269,704). "Indiscretions merely attract the public in a greater degree to the box office." Delighted, the Beaver turned to another guest: "There you have the whole of the Daily Express in one sentence...
Rolling a professional eye at the saga of the first Roman Catholic to win the presidency, Historian (Giants of Justice) Albert Vorspan, 37, concocted "a whimsical fantasy" titled "A Jew in the White House," for the current American Judaism (circ. 220,000), official magazine of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, Excerpts...
...handed foundation officers the check, was an earnest of his intent to pay $8,985,000 for the block of stock they had for sale. And so, with a squiggle-squiggle, Philip L. Graham, 45, president of the Washington Post and Times Herald, took control of Newsweek (weekly circ...
...first time Multimillionaire John Hay Whitney, then U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, went hunting for an editor for the paper he had just bought. He passed over several prospects to pick Robert M. White II, 45, co-publisher of the Mexico, Mo., Ledger (circ. 9,122). White, who never quite mastered the transition from Mexico to Manhattan, resigned last November...
...test, though he doesn't say so: "There has already been too much talk about 'saving the Tribune.' The Trib has a very sound base to operate on." Still a good daily, the Trib has fallen into an unprofitable trough between the towering New York Times (circ. 644,175), which has most of the class circulation, and the tabloid Daily News (2,021,395). The Sunday Trib is even more in need of rehabilitation - which may be one reason Whitney picked a magazine...