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Westbrook Pegler (174 papers, circ. 10,000,000) has a literary skill "beyond question, but very few of his methods are consistent with any attempt at honesty, either emotional or intellectual. . . . They make one curious to know whether [he] is not aware that venom is a more marketable commodity than reason. . . . His readers cherish his cholers. . . . His circulation has risen with his blood pressure." Praised: the Peglerizing of Racketeers Willie Bioff, George Scalise...
Three weeks ago Earl Jones purchased the Massillon Independent (circ. 11,858) for "around $400,000." The seller was Philadelphia's Walter Annenberg. Publisher Jones promptly announced that the Independent and the Zanesville News (circ. 13,006), which he started four and a half years ago, would be links of a new chain of Ohio dailies. He detailed no plans, but those who knew of his operations in Zanesville expected nothing less than revolutions...
...Zanesville awoke to a sudden newspaper fight. Jones was building a plant to "run the Litticks out of town." The late William 0. Littick and his two sons had long had a monopoly in the morning Times Recorder (circ. 19,957), the evening Signal (circ. 6,974) and the Sunday Times-Signal (circ. 11,863). The Litticks fought back by taking up United Press and International News Service, along with their Associated Press membership. But until lately, when his News got U.P., Jones managed with Transradio News alone. He carried on a running battle in type. He has lost...
...first edition of his New Dealish evening Journal would be published on St. Patrick's Day (because his mother was Irish). The Journal will break the San Diego general newspaper monoply of rich, myopic, 79-year-old Colonel Ira Clifton Copley owner of the arch-Republican morning Union (circ. 44,359) and evening Tribune-Sun (circ...
Farm Journal (circ. 2,700,000) succeeded in luring Anderson after many others had failed. One factor: his managing editor will be Carroll P; Streeter, originator 20 years ago of the Gazette's farm page...