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...Public Interest. So far, the only apparent beneficiary of the strike at the morning Globe has been the bigger, richer afternoon Post-Dispatch. Since the strike began, the Post-Dispatch has jumped 60,000 in daily circulation...
...last week the Post-Dispatch indicated that it would gladly give up the gains to get back the Globe-Democrat. Said the public-service-minded Post-Dispatch in an unusual editorial: "There is a public interest in the publication of two separate, independent newspapers in this community. We believe the public interest calls for an early settlement. In all too many American cities, newspaper competition has disappeared. The Post-Dispatch does not want to see that happen here...
...Some days ago," he said, planting his elbows on the dispatch box and gravely taking the House of Commons into his confidence, "information came to the notice of the government of Nyasaland of a very serious kind." So serious was it, in fact, that the Governor of Nyasaland had declared a state of emergency. "I have seen the information. I am not in a position to disclose it," said Lennox-Boyd, as the Opposition hooted. "[But], in fact, a massacre was being planned...
...Louis morning Globe-Democrat has been wavering along between the red and the black ever since Publisher Samuel I. Newhouse added it to his chain in 1955 for $6,250,000. Up against the city's other -and dominant-newspaper, the profitable, Democratic evening Post-Dispatch, the Republican Globe managed to gain some ground (the Globe's circulation of 332,823 is up 40,000 from 1955; the Post's 380,495 is down 7,000), but it never could spin into the solid black. Last week, while his paper was shut down by an American Newspaper...
...undisclosed sum, Newhouse sold the Globe's printing equipment and block-long, six-story building (built in 1931) to the Pulitzer family's Post-Dispatch. The P-D will move bodily out of its smaller quarters (built in 1917, added to in 1941) into the Globe building; the Globe will lease new office space elsewhere. The P-D will print all editions of the Globe on contract, thereby follow the national trend (Chicago, Chattanooga), dictated by rising costs, of using one set of presses to print morning and afternoon papers. The Globe will abandon its Sunday paper, print...