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When Canadian Publisher Roy Thomson bought Scotland's whiskery morning Scotsman (circ. 56,091), he stropped his razor and announced that he planned changes that "would be obvious to any American newspaper operator." Moving into the Scotsman's gingerbread headquarters on Edinburgh's North Bridge, Thomson stepped up news of the Commonwealth and hired longtime Glasgow Daily Record Editor Alastair M. Dunnett to brighten and broaden the influential Scotsman's local coverage...
...make it an "important and influential paper around the world," said Publisher Thomson, 63, a plump, pink-cheeked, bustling Scottish-descended Toronto native who owns 20 dailies in Canada (almost one-fourth of Canada's English-language dailies) as well as Florida's St. Petersburg Independent (circ. 25,820). This summer he plans to assign staff correspondents to major international news centers, and will start publishing a special airmail edition that will be flown to world capitals and reach European newsstands only a few hours after publication. Thomson hopes the Scotsman will thus become the conservative, north...
...cities have union bullyboys faced a more obdurate press than in Scranton (pop. 127,600). Their most dogged foe over the years has been sensitive, white-haired Thomas F. Murphy, editorial-page editor of the Democratic evening Times (circ. 57,429). A Timesman for 60 of his 77 years, fighting Tom Murphy is a staunch unionist; in 1904 he helped found the Newswriters Union, a forerunner of the American Newspaper Guild. But in recent years, as labor goons and commissars pushed their thumbs deeper into Scranton's economic windpipe, old Tom hammered tirelessly at union despotism...
...biggest news breaks did not fall to the Times. They fell to its morning rival, the Republican Tribune (circ. 40,733). When Teamster Steward Paul Bradshaw went on trial for the dynamiting in 1955, a tough, aggressive Tribune reporter named J. Harold Brislin interviewed him and wrote a story after his conviction asking: "Will Bradshaw talk?" Four months later, out on bail and embittered by the way his union pals had let him take the rap, Paul Bradshaw decided at last to talk-to Harold Brislin...
...Have you, too, been bamboozled by American ballyhoo?" asked London's left-wing People under the headline: TAKE A GOOD LOOK AT THE REAL AMERICA ! With this lead the Sunday People (circ. 4,948,215), which wallows weekly in a rich home-brew of slaughter, society scandal and police-court sex, last week decanted a bottle of sour-mash bamboozlement imported from the old colony across the Atlantic...