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...morning Chronicle's lively sprint but by a costly competition for an afternoon market big enough for only one, San Francisco's two evening papers last week gave up vying and merged. The union welds weak links of two big newspaper chains: Hearst's Call-Bulletin (circ. 145,070) and Scripps-Howard's News (circ. 98,808). Since each paper had been losing an estimated $1,000,000 a year, the merger was aptly characterized by a Hearst staffer. "Imagine," he said, "being kicked to death by a dead horse...
...paper, to be published daily except Sunday as the News-Call Bulletin, will be run editorially by Scripps-Howard, leaving the business operation under Hearstmen. Unaffected by the consolidation : Hearst's morning Examiner, still the biggest paper in town (circ. 263,500, or 27,020 more than the Chronicle...
...outward appearances, Police Reporter Gene Grove, 34, and Aviation Editor Harry Franken, 35, are smart, hardworking newsmen on the daily Columbus (Ohio) Citizen (circ. 85,942). But once each week the two slip off duty and into the harness of the Columbus C.I.O. News, a weekly organ for organized labor. There Reporters Franken and Grove conduct a column called "Checking the Press." Its purpose: to appraise the performance of the Columbus daily press, including their own Citizen, A recent example of their work in the C.I.O. News: "The Citizen has more and more sugar-coated its stories, has spent more...
...back in the tropical wilderness of new Guinea, a jungle newspaper distributor was recently asked by the management of the South Pacific Post (circ. 4,218 twice weekly) if the 50 copies he was getting were enough. "Thank you," he replied politely, "but I sell only ten to people who read the paper and 40 to people who smoke it." So much in demand is the Post for its roll-your-own qualities that back copies sell for 7? a lb., and the paper can claim title as the world's most widely smoked publication. It can also claim...
...columnist with the professional disposition of a rabid porcupine, William Connor of London's spicy Daily Mirror (circ. 4,500,000), who writes as Cassandra, watched 1½ TV performances of a U.S. pianist visiting England in 1956, then upquilled. "This deadly, winking, sniggering, snuggling, chromium-plated, scent-impregnated, luminous, quivering, giggling, fruit-flavored, mincing, ice-covered heap of mother-love," fumed Connor of Wladziu Valentino Liberace. "He is the summit of sex-the pinnacle of Masculine, Feminine and Neuter. Everything that He, She or It can ever want...