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...Roman Catholic traditionalists are more widely respected, even by ideological opponents, than Journalist Dale Francis. A veteran of three decades of Catholic publishing, Francis almost singlehanded has edited the National Catholic Register (circ. 90,000) as an effective voice of Catholic conservatism since Schick Millionaire Patrick J. Frawley Jr. bought the paper in 1970. So dedicated was Francis that he took no vacation during those four years...
Field & Stream (circ. 1,860,000), a monthly devoted to duck hunting, fishing and other woodsy pursuits, hardly seems like a cockpit of ideological controversy. Yet in recent weeks its owner, the Columbia Broadcasting System, has been the target of angry letters and calls from the environment and conservation lobbies. Some of the protests came from members of Congress, including Henry Reuss, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Conservation and Natural Resources. Then 50 irate conservationists waved placards in front of CBS's Washington office. Cause of the wrath: the firing of Field & Stream's widely known conservation...
...Ridder papers include such varied properties as the Journal of Commerce, a useful if pork-belly plain compendium of business news; Colorado's folksy Boulder Daily Camera (circ. 22,380); and the St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch, which occasionally outshines its bigger Twin City sisters. In general, however, the Ridder papers do not have the heft and influence of the Knight dailies. Though the Knight brothers are both conservatives, the papers are what Hills describes as "central progressive." In the 1972 election six Knight papers endorsed Richard Nixon and two backed George McGovern; only two echoed John Knight...
...organization's counsel. Appointed executive director last January, she left her Manhattan law firm to take over a 330-member staff, product-testing laboratories in New York, a Connecticut auto-test center, a Washington, D.C., advocacy law office and the monthly magazine, Consumer Reports (circ. 2.2 million...
...talk circuit to concentrate on writing. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Smith, she serves on the advisory board of the National Organization for Women, helped convene the National Women's Political Caucus in 1971 and is a co-founder and editor of the highly successful Ms. magazine (circ...