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...past couple of years," said a Los Angeles Daily News staffer, "we have never known when we left at night whether the paper would be open the next day when we showed up at the office." The fear was justified: the ailing News (circ. 188,453) was losing between $75,000 and $80,000 a month. News Publisher Robert Smith thought he had found a way out of his trouble when erratic Coos Bay (Ore.) Times Publisher Sheldon F. Sackett put down a $20,000 deposit to buy the News and signed a contract...
Last week, in his 50th year of running the magazine, Editor and Chairman Poe's Progressive Farmer (circ. 1,227,329) carried more advertising than any other farm magazine in the U.S., and could justly say that its five regional editions "dominate the rural South...
Such outbursts of approval as this one in the letters column of the New York Herald Tribune last week are not at all unusual for the Trib's Food Editor Clementine Paddleford. Her daily Trib columns and Sunday column in This Week (circ. 10,638,00) have brought in thousands of letters (one-third of them from men), and made her the best-known food editor in the U.S. "Nobody writes about food," says Claudius Philippe, food boss of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, "with more enthusiasm and literary quality...
...staffers, whose salaries are as high as any newspaper in the U.S., keep aloof from outside organizations, rarely accept invitations to pressagents' parties, return gifts that are sent to them, pay their way wherever they go. The PD, which in 1951 bought the ailing Star-Times (circ. 179,803) and now is the only evening paper in St. Louis, seldom loses a staffer to any other newspaper. When the flow of news is heavy the news department rules, decides how much space it will need, leaves the rest for ads. The P-D needs plenty of news space since...
Died. Charles G. (for Grey) Grey, 78, co-founder and editor (1911-39) of Britain's top aviation magazine, The Aeroplane (circ. 35,000), and longtime editor of the authoritative annual, Jane's All the World's Aircraft (1916-42) ; of a heart attack; in London...