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...satanic fulminations of William Loeb, cantankerous, ultraconservative publisher of the Manchester, N.H., Union Leader, would turn up on the front pages of newspapers across the country. As aspiring Presidents trooped up to New Hampshire for the nation's earliest presidential primary, Loeb's relatively small daily (circ. 65,298) became an influential voice in American politics. That voice was Loeb's alone: petulant, scurrilous and unfailingly infuriating. For more than thirty years, Loeb put his splenetic opinions where no one could miss them: in boldface type on the front page of the Union Leader, which...
Ever since Harper's Editor Lewis Lapham, 46, announced his resignation last month, the troubled 131-year-old monthly (circ: 336,000) has been engaged in an intense head-hunting expedition. Last week the search committee, headed by Rutgers English Professor Richard Poirier, chose Lapham's replacement: Michael Kinsley, 30, Harvard graduate, lawyer and an editor since 1976 of the New Republic (circ. 97,000). Says Harper's Publisher David Michaels: "He is young, and he was the one person we saw who seemed to present any solid opinion about what we should do for the magazine...
...with loud optimism about the American reader and the American dollar, German publishers Gruner & Jahr introduced Geo magazine, a pricey ($4 per issue), richly produced journal aimed at luring young, up-scale readers away from National Geographic (circ. 10 million). Instead, Geo's diffuse, often pretentious photojournalistic essays drove many readers away; circulation reached only 256,000, short of the planned 300,000. A promotion campaign dubbing it The Earth Diary seemed a futile echo of the '60s. Last week, after losing about $30 million-plus three publishers and three managing editors-Gruner & Jahr sold their ad-starved...
...Minneapolis cousin John Cowles Jr., 52. Both companies have suffered financial declines recently. In Minneapolis, operating earnings slid from $6 million in 1979 to $3.7 million a year later, largely because of a 27-day newspaper strike and continuing losses from its latest acquisition, the Buffalo (N.Y.) Courier-Express (circ. 131,990). The smaller Des Moines company saw its earnings drop from $3.6 million in 1979 to $2.6 million in 1980, in part, because of the troubled evening Tribune (circ. 80,114), which has been losing readers steadily for more than a decade. Even more serious for Des Moines...
...talks progressed, apprehension grew at the Register (circ. 210,465), possessor of nine Pulitzer Prizes, that the Des Moines company would be swallowed whole by the larger Minneapolis company. Last week's agreement with its emphasis on preserving the independence of the papers allayed those fears. Said one relieved Register reporter: "I don't think we have to worry any more about a Minneapolis Mafia moving in." Register Editor Michael G. Gartner, who originally opposed the merger, agreed: "I feel it's the right thing to do; it will ensure that we have good, vigorous newspapers that...