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...circulation will be to morrow. And they have cause for concern. Even without the normal attrition in readership caused by a lengthy strike, the Times and Trib figure to suffer some losses as a result of their new 10? prices. When Manhattan's afternoon papers went to a dime in 1957. circulation dropped 20%, and after six years has barely managed to climb back...
...French are rapidly succumbing to a thoroughly un-Gallic habit: one-stop shopping à l'Américaine. The pioneer and fastest-growing example of the trend is Prisunic (One-Price), the Continent's largest retail chain and a sort of bouillabaisse of the U.S. five-and-dime store, the discount house and the supermarket. In Prisunic's 304 stores, shoppers avidly fill their carts with blue jeans and brassières, meat and mushrooms, toys and tools-while canned music wafts across crowded aisles, pretty girls demonstrate how to cook frozen foods, and cash registers tinkle...
Washboard & Jug. When representatives of a New York publisher turned up in Memphis in February to pay Gus for his old song, he was as cagey as he was surprised. ''I want my money," he kept saying, peering out over his dime-store glasses. For publishers' rights to the song, Vanguard Records gave him $500, plus the promise of a one-third cut in royalties if all goes well. Gus was also offered a recording contract to make an album for Atlantic Records' Stax label...
Premature Countdown. Last week, on the eve of what they thought would be the end of the strike, the Times and the Trib announced that they were doubling their prices to a dime-something the Trib has been itching to do for years but could not face as long as its chief rival sold for a nickel. To herald its return, the Trib printed a giveaway, four-page "appetizer" edition advising New Yorkers in bold headlines to COUNT THE HOURS TILL WE'RE BACK...
Died. Rush Harrison Kress, 85, younger brother of the late dime-store king and famed art collector, who as president of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation since 1955, carried on his brother's 20-year project for the donation of $50 million worth of art treasures to U.S. museums; in New York...