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British newsstands, normally snowed under by a weekend blizzard of weekly magazines, last week looked rather bare. Of some 200 London weeklies, 60 had failed to appear, including such favorites as Radio Times (circ. 8,000,000). Reason: a labor dispute affecting some 3,500 London job printers. They charged that they had been locked out by their employers, the London Master Printers Association. The association retorted that it had fired the printers for refusing to abolish overtime restrictions. They had been required to do so under a government arbitration decision awarding the men a weekly raise...
...Cleveland Press (circ. 293,690), Ohio's biggest daily newspaper, agreed with the court. Said the Press: "Freedom of the press is too important a bulwark of our way of life to be dragged in as an alibi for trying to get rid of a competitor . . . Freedom of the press, is ... not an excuse for selfish or arrogant behavior...
Both men were hired by McCall's able, shrewd Editor-Publisher Otis Lee Wiese, as part of his campaign to crowd the Ladies' Home Journal (circ. 4,200,000) off the roost as top-hen in the U.S. women's magazine field. By snatching Eleanor Roosevelt from the Journal (TIME, June 13, 1949), Wiese picked up 200,000 in circulation last year. Though still 500,000 behind the Journal, he expects to pick up more circulation by a shift in policy which Mich and Ehrlich will carry...
...articles, picture spreads and stories. So he gave Mich the job of supplying them. An old newshand, Dan Mich should have no trouble filling the bill. He quit the University of Wisconsin in 1923 in his sophomore year to become sport editor of Madison's Wisconsin State Journal (circ. 76,206), was managing editor at 28. In 1937, Gardner ("Mike") Cowles lured him to Des Moines to help run his fledgling Look. Five years later, after Look moved to New York, Executive Editor Mich ran the magazine under Editor Mike Cowles, had a big hand in making Look...
...some 375 other employees of the Enquirer (circ. 72,970), the news came later, but in a manner just as startling. As the day's first edition and the paper's last rolled from the presses, a neat little announcement was pinned to the bulletin board: the paper was closing because "present costs make the decision necessary." Stunned reporters and copyreaders exchanged blank, bleak looks, then drifted aimlessly out the door and into nearby bars. There was little use in looking for jobs on other papers in Oakland and San Francisco; they were fully staffed...