Word: fuoss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next month Fuoss will send the rejuvenated Post to the newsstands, complete with a new price: 20? instead of 15?. To soften up the public, Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn will soon kick off a $1,250,000 nationwide ad drive. The Post's new look and stance, said an adman who went to Philadelphia for a close look at the revamped format, "may infuriate some long-term readers, and there may be turnover in the audience. But it is good enough to bring in new readers as fast as it loses old ones." Fuoss says that...
...year's end, said the Post in a quiet announcement, would go Kansas-born Ben Hibbs, 59, Post editor since 1942 when he was assigned to spark the first editorial revolution in modern Post history. Hibbs's successor: Executive Editor Robert Fuoss (rhymes with mousse), 48, the same young promotion and advertising-idea man who, nine years out of the University of Michigan, accompanied Hibbs to the top as Post managing editor. Though it is bigger than ever at 6,377,367 circulation, the magazine that Robert Fuoss will command is in serious financial trouble...