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Before Lindsay left and some dues-paying pressman pushed the button, an hour of printing time was lost. But at last the WJT appeared. Stabbing the air with one of the first copies, Editor Frank Conniff exclaimed with proud surprise: "This paper actually came...
...write-up of city firemen's beefs found room in the women's pages; on the first page of the second section, four humorous columns surrounded a somber piece about women convicts. Such gaffes only reflected a first-week confusion. "Those stories were in type," explained Conniff. "We simply had to put them somewhere...
...Town. All sales will be from newsstands; there will be no home delivery. Which means that headlines will have to catch the eye of the rushing subway rider and home-bound commuter. But Conniff is confident that he will be able to keep stories from being played out of proportion to what they are worth. After all, his only direct competition will come from the Post, with its predictable liberal approach to any issue. The Post, says Conniff, should serve "to keep us from getting stuffy. But hell, last week the Post had two-TWO-editorials on U Thant. Tell...
Aware that strikes drain away readers who never return, Conniff doubts that the circulation of his paper will get close to the combined total of the three merged dailies. He projects a 650,000 circulation for the daily paper, 750,000 for the Sunday. And he hopes that the figures will rise as the World Journal...
Tribune, which intends to focus almost exclusively on New York, learns how to please New Yorkers. "This is a lively city," says Conniff. "I hope that some of the beat and rhythmic style of the city gets into our paper...