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Since he saved enough money as a reporter to buy his first newspaper 41 years ago, shrewd Oscar Stauffer, 69, has bought twelve small dailies (total circ. 110,000) and three radio stations,* chiefly in Kansas and the Midwest. Last week, at a single stroke, Stauffer took over the vaster domain (total circ. 5,000,000) of another self-made publisher, Kansas' late Senator Arthur Capper. Reported purchase price...
Stauffer's buy gave him a monopoly in the state capital as well as the surrounding region's only morning paper, the Topeka Daily Capital (circ. 64,304), which since 1941 has shared presses, quarters and business departments with Stauffer's own Topeka afternoon paper, the State Journal (circ. 23,471). Also in the package: another daily, the Kansas City Kansan (circ. 29,583), six farm periodicals, two national magazines, Capper's Farmer (circ. 1,462,513) and Household (circ. 2,578,797), plus Topeka's radio and TV station WIBW and Kansas City...
...latest phenomenon in U.S. magazine publishing is Playboy, an oversexed young version of the 23-year-old Esquire. Last week, not yet three years old but selling 688,000 copies, the slick and sassy 50? monthly threatened to outstrip Esquire (circ. 778,000) in a circulation fight. Playboy has also spawned a litter of its own imitators, e.g., Playgirl (which it is suing for too close an imitation), Nugget, Rogue, U.S. Male...
...RIFLE? With that playful headline, the Los Angeles Mirror-News last week joined other U.S. tabloids in joyful coverage of an event long prophesied, widely awaited and plainly relished: the shooting of Robert Harrison. 52, publisher of Confidential, whose formula of sinnuendo about celebrities has built up the bestselling (circ. 3,674,423) magazine on U.S. newsstands (TIME, July...