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...paid demonstrators shed blood to keep Dwight Eisenhower out of Japan, seven of Tokyo's most influential daily newspapers jointly denounced such goings-on. "We cannot condone violence," cried Tokyo's Asahi Shinbun (circ. 5,000,000). "Impermissible under any circumstances," echoed Yomiuri...
...Government. Such rabble-rousing irresponsibility is neither a studied reflection of the national will nor a momentary lapse from reason: it is the very nature of the Japanese press. With one minor exception-the Communist Party's daily Akahata (circ. 53,000)-the country's 186 dailies stand for nothing at all. But they are united against the government. It just so happens that the Conservatives have been in power since the end of 1948, but with fine impartiality, the press has flayed all of Premier Kishi's predecessors as savagely as Kishi. Says one leading Tokyo...
...anything, the second buy was a better bargain than the first. The Denver Post has been barely scraping by on the balance sheet, but the three Springfield papers-the morning Union (circ. 80,968), the evening News (99,998) and the Sunday Republican (112,352)-produce a cool net profit of $1,000,000 a year...
...fastest-growing newspaper publisher in the U.S. In one hand he carried a battered 13-year-old briefcase bulging with the blueprints of a big deal. Within 24 hours Publisher Samuel I. Newhouse, 65, left Denver with what he had come for: a 15% cut of the Denver Post (circ. 256,513), plus definite expectations of ultimately gaining full control...
...Newhouse likes to be a bit off handed about his press purchases. Ex plaining that his son Donald, who is pub lisher of the Jersey Journal (circ. 93,998), also oversees Newhouse papers in Birmingham and Huntsville, Ala. and in Portland, Ore., Newhouse says of his Post deal: "Denver makes a nice stop on the way from Alabama to Portland." Be that as it may, Sam Newhouse picked up a slice of a famed newspaper...