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...daily papers in Jackson, Miss. bitterly competed with each other. The afternoon News (circ. 41,361) was run by fire-breathing Fred Sullens, who liked to boast how he beat up his complainants, was once caned by former Governor Paul B. Johnson. He also liked to attack the morning Clarion-Ledger (circ. 47,396), owned by the Hederman family. But despite the appearance of editorial rivalry in the state capital, the two papers worked as one on business and advertising matters...
...papers held a club over local businessmen by setting their ad rates jointly and by making national advertisers who wanted to buy space in one paper buy the same amount in the other. As a result of what a Mississippi court termed their monopolistic "subterfuge," both the News and Clarion-Ledger made an average profit of 18% on their total incomes, one of the highest newspaper profit margins...
...Hedermans, a powerful old Mississippi family which has amassed a fortune in the state from real estate, printing and newspapering, were not satisfied. The seven members of the family, led by Clarion-Ledger Manager Robert Hederman Jr. and his cousin, Editor Tom Hederman Jr., quietly began buying up News stock, hoped to turn the News into the afternoon edition of the Clarion-Ledger. Last year when Editor Sullens and the other owners found out that the Hedermans were on the verge of taking control of the News, they tried to block them in court. After a long and bitter court...
...that tiny Flemish town. Many other such charters were granted in Flanders during the Middle Ages and kept secure in strong boxes in town halls topped by belfries. The proudest possession of any Flemish town came to be its bell tower, where bronze voices hung always ready to clarion forth any abuse of local rights and privileges...
...bedside, when a final attack of pneumonia felled him, were his doctor, a nurse, and his third wife, with whom he had quarreled bitterly (two years ago he unsuccessfully tried to have her committed to a mental hospital). .His children were dead or far away. His name, once a clarion call, threatened to be drowned out by the tinny trumpets of lesser men. Yet Americans had reason to remember him with respect and gratitude. For the stage, even in the restless age of movies and TV, is still a window on a nation's culture, and Eugene...