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...folding left the scientific field dominated by money-making Popular Science (circ. 1,170,000) and Popular Mechanics (circ. 1,035,000), which turn out easily understood science news for their educated laymen, gadgets and shop hints for the young and the mechanically minded. But Science Illustrated's readers were more likely to shift to the recently revivified, upper-middlebrow Scientific American (circ...
...London Mystery Magazine, a high-brow whodunit monthly, was published from that address, and 40,000 copies were on sale last week (at 50?) on newsstands all over Britain. Soon, London Mystery will invade the U.S. market, to match its wits against Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (circ. 150,000), which now dominates the mystery-magazine field...
...Finnegan: "It was just as if the weatherman said it was going to rain tomorrow." Civic-minded Newsman Finnegan, with an appraising eye fixed on the circulation chart, decided to kick Chicago in the seat of its complacency. Soon, on billboards and in Page One headlines, the Sun-Times (circ. 635,000) was screaming, SOMEBODY KNOWS! Day after day, the newspaper raked up old unsolved murders; it offered $100,000 in rewards for clues* which would catch the killers...
Lettered across the front window of the Flora, Ill. Sentinel (circ. 2,500) is a proud slogan: "A free press, a free nation." Like many another country editor, stocky, aggressive Charles Allen Crowder writes almost all the stories in his twice-weekly Sentinel himself; his wife Dorothy and their 15-year-old son Charles Jr. (whose column is called "Crowder's Chowder") do the rest. In reporting the news of Flora (pop. 6,000) and Republican Clay County, Republican Editor Crowder says he sometimes "plays up what the business interests want played down...
...Miami, the Knight-owned Herald (circ. 186,166) and the Cox-owned Daily News (circ. 88,223) take turns denouncing gamblers and racketeers who do a reputed $100-million-a-year business in Dade County. Most Miamians ignore the periodic newspaper crusades; they seem to feel that the gamblers are only giving well-heeled tourists the fling they want...