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...rhymes with reign) has long enjoyed the title "Mr. San Francisco," and one of the most faithful followings of any local columnist in the U.S. (TIME, July 1). On his three-block walk in 1950, Caen took with him 10,000 to 15,000 readers. The upward-struggling Chronicle (circ. 190,045), which has run six columnists in Caen's space without filling the gap, hopes that Herb's homecoming will draw an extra 30,000 circulation and regain some of the advertising that followed him to the Examiner (circ...
Tall, elegantly tailored Axel Springer, 45, owns outright three thriving dailies and two Sunday papers with total circulation of more than five million. They reach their readers in editions published from teletype-linked plants in Berlin, Hamburg, Essen, Frankfurt and Munich. Springer also publishes five magazines (total circ. 4,680,000) that range from the weekly Das Neue Blatt, a sex-spiced gossip sheet, to Hör zu! (Listen!), a TV-radio weekly whose 2,600,000 sales top all other German magazines...
...content with keeping Mochtar Lubis out of circulation-and out of print-Sukarno's government has shut down his crusading paper three times in less than a year. From the day of Lubis' arrest, anti-Communist Indonesia Raya (circ. 40,000), the nation's leading independent daily, started carrying a Page One box each morning reminding readers of its editor's arbitrary imprisonment. Ordered last month to drop the box, Raya pointedly substituted three inches of white space, plus another big gap where it would normally have carried an editorial explaining the omission...
Georgia's standpat segregationists got a shock with their Sunday paper this week. Glaring from the pages of the Atlanta Journal and Constitution (circ. 512,559) was a statement signed by almost every leading Protestant minister in Atlanta-80 in all-which came out foursquare for the Christian view of race relations, individual liberty and the law of the land...
...once had to forgo 17 pages of ads. The new presses, capable of turning out 128-page papers, will also allow the Sun-Times to go all out for the added circulation it could not handle in its old building. Now the ninth biggest U.S. newspaper, the Sun-Times (circ. 588,181) boasts that it has overtaken John S. Knight's Chicago News (614,098) in ad volume, and is steadily edging up to the Chicago Tribune (943,741). "Now," vowed a Sun-Times executive, "we will go to the mat with the Trib...