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London's Fleet Street, the home of most of Britain's national dailies and once the newspaper capital of the world, has fallen on hard times. Just how hard became apparent in March, when the tacky tabloid Daily Sketch (circ. 760,000) announced that it would cease publication. This month, the Sketch will be merged into the troubled Daily Mail (circ. 1,800,000), which turns tabloid this week in an effort to stay alive after 75 years as a standard-size sheet. As a result of the merger, 270 journalists and 1,400 production workers will lose...
Died. Harry F. Guggenheim, 80, philanthropist and industrialist, who with his wife founded Long Island's Newsday and turned it into the largest suburban daily (circ. 455,501) in the U.S.; in Sands Point, N.Y. Scion of a wealthy mining family, Guggenheim devoted his early years to the family's businesses and foundations, translating his immense enthusiasm for aviation into generous grants that helped establish six schools of aeronautical engineering (including those at M.I.T., Caltech and Stanford), underwrote Charles A. Lindbergh's triumphal tours with the Spirit of St. Louis in 1927, and financed much...
...articles if anyone bothered to read them. Despite-or because of-a running battle with police, the magazine has reached a circulation of 450,000 in less than four years. That is phenomenal, especially since Playmen costs just over a dollar a copy. LIFE-like Epoca (circ. 350,000) and Oggi (950,000) cost 29? and 24? respectively...
Died. Raymond C. Hoiles, 91, president of the Freedom Newspapers chain with 20 dailies (combined circ.: over 500,000) in Florida. Ohio, Nebraska, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado and California; in Santa Ana, Calif. So conservative that he refused to endorse Dwight Eisenhower or Robert A. Taft, Hoiles inveighed against anything even remotely socialistic, including tax-supported compulsory public education...
...Edward H. Harte, 47, is a rich, urbane Texan who got "my big awakening" majoring in philosophy at Dartmouth. Today he is co-owner of the $27 million Harte-Hanks newspaper chain, publisher of the Corpus Christi Caller-Times (circ. 107,000) and the most liberal press tycoon in Texas. A key cause of that superlative is his son Chris, 22, a political science major at Stanford, who has taught Harte to "admire the gutsiness of this generation...