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...widow's red plastic handbag in the yard of an abandoned factory, Haigh was arrested. London's liveliest dailies splashed the story over Page One. After reporters learned that the Yard was hunting five other missing persons, the tabloid Mirror, the world's largest daily (circ. 4,000,000) and London's most sensational, promptly cried "Bluebeard" and headlined: HOW MANY RICH WIDOWS DIED...
...weekly Atlantic Highlands (NJ.) Journal (circ. 1,050) was short on personal items and society notes because its staff had been temporarily cut in half. Explained Editor William Buckley on Page One: "The Editor's wife, who goes around picking up loose ends after the Editor, is a good eight months pregnant and the doctor says she must take things easy from here on out. That means the number of loose ends she picks up is considerably diminished ... If there is something you want in the paper, or if you know of some little tidbit that's newsy...
Underground. Though it has changed ownership only once since 1800, the Gazette (circ. 9,200) has had eight different names and has suffered more violent changes. Gazette Founder Samuel Snowden and son Edgar pursued a, conservative editorial way until the Civil War. When Federal occupation troops arrested an Alexandria minister in church for refusing to pray for Abraham Lincoln, the Gazette cried out at the indignity. Angry Unionists burned the offices down, and the paper had to publish underground. When it finally made peace with the Unionists and emerged, the Gazette was still unreconstructed...
...Script (circ. 27,000), the West Coast imitation of The New Yorker, had almost written "The End" last Christmas, when the magazine's backers (including Moviemaker Sam Goldwyn and General Manager Bob Smith of the Los Angeles Daily News) pulled out. Publisher Ik Shuman, once an editor of The New Yorker, bought the monthly from them for $1, and tried to keep it going. But production costs were too high, and revenue too low. Last week Shuman sadly put the final issue to bed. Then he called his creditors together to write a P.S. to Script. Debts...
Another West Coast regional magazine, Pacific Pathways (circ. 21,000), a four-color vacation magazine aimed at the California tourist trade, came to the end of the road. Last week, it sold its title and subscription lists to Fortnight (circ...