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...businessmen seldom like to talk about their upkeep. Operating costs for a company plane, in the air 600 hours a year, can run as high as 65? a passenger mile v. an average 5½? on commercial flights. The cost can be much higher if a corporation does not dispatch the plane with all the care of a commercial airline, making sure it is in constant use. But businessmen can cite other kinds of economy, such as the case where a salesman, flown direct to a customer in a company plane, signed up a $1,000,000 order before...
...Democratic Digest was born "to combat the one-party press." At first this seems silly, since it consists mostly of reprints of pro-Democratic articles from newspapers. But a closer look shows that the bulk of the reprints come from but a handful of papers: the St. Louis Post Dispatch, Sacramento Bee, Washington Post, New York Post, etc. So, the Digest's real purpose is to circulate the Word in areas Democratic newspapers don't reach...
...Edgar Hoover appeared in front of the Senate Internal Security Committee and refuted a major part of Mr. Truman's speech. The report of this testimony, which was headline news in almost every other newspaper in the country, was carried by the CRIMSON only in the AP wire dispatch. And yet a three-column front page spread was given to the HLU telegram signed by 441 students congratulating Truman...
...giving advance notice of the new policy on the Du Mont network's TV panel show, The Big Issue, Hagerty found himself under fire. His attacker: the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Washington Correspondent Raymond ("Pete") Brandt, who was still smarting over the Warren leak (TIME, Oct. 12). "The information order relates to the classification of documents," said Brandt, "[which] gave us very little trouble under the Truman Administration." Even if a document had been classified, he argued, newsmen had ready access to Government officials who would give the information they wanted. "The present Administration," said Brandt, "[seems...
Brittain had shown the promise right in Beaverbrook's own backyard. At 25, after making a name as a reporter and editor, he became assistant editor of Beaver-brook's Sunday Express, three years later was named editor of Lord Rothermere's Sunday Dispatch. In 1934 Brittain started out on his own. borrowed $1,600 to buy a weekly, Recorder, which had a circulation of only 700. He built it into a moneymaker, boosted its circulation to 22,500 and put together a chain of eleven other weeklies and trade papers...