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...York Sunday News, which has the most readers in the U.S. (circ. 4,650,000) makes certain assumptions about them: 1) they are literate enough to read picture captions and comic balloons; 2) they are baseball fans; 3) they savvy cop talk. These assumptions underlay a News headline last week...
...title of Editorial Director, waited in his 15th-floor Manhattan office for his successor to show up. The new boss came in three hours late. Said Bliven: "Hello, Henry. Come on in and I'll show you your office." Henry Wallace, politician-at-large, had acquired a lever (circ. 45,000) and a place to stand, and would now try to move the world...
...week for experienced reporters. The first enemy, Hearst's Los Angeles Herald & Express (TIME, Sept. 23), was still shut down and the strike was in its ninth week. Dave Stern was a hand-picked target: Rival Walter (son of Moe) Annenberg's richer Inquirer (circ. 600,000) had countered Guild demands with an offer identical to Stern's, but so far had been left alone. To Guild members, who might also be baffled by the discrimination, the Guild frankly admitted that it considered Stern the softer touch...
...deals were just for practice, but he was playing for keeps when he bought control of the Indianapolis Star (for $2,500,000) in 1944. Last week Publisher Pulliam, a crew-cropped six-footer, pulled his biggest deal of all. In bustling Phoenix (Ariz.) he bought the Republic (circ. 56,810) and Gazette (33,494), a money-making mo- nopoly. Price: $4.000,000 cash. Agent: burly Smith Davis, newspaper broker who is usually around when sizable papers change hands (TIME, April...
Last week, after 17 months on the shelf, Ed Kennedy had a new job: managing editor of the Santa Barbara, Calif. News-Press (circ. 18,000). Publisher T. M. Storke, 70, had turned down 100 applicants for the post before he chose Kennedy. Beamed Storke, 44 years an A.P. member: "Mr. Cooper . . . praised Kennedy very highly...