Word: gruner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...project. "Whittle's plan is not far away from book burning," exclaims T George Harris, editor of American Health, which offers 100,000 subscriptions free of charge to doctors. "We aren't about to roll over," declares Kenneth Gordon, publisher of Reader's Digest. John Beni, president of Gruner + Jahr USA, publisher of Parents and Expecting, vows, "Magazine publishers will strike back...
...publishers are ready to compete with Whittle, but they are incensed by his attempt to exclude their magazines. Several are threatening to sue. "Once Whittle ties up too many doctors, then he chokes the marketplace and can be challenged under the antitrust laws," says Attorney John Hadlock, who represents Gruner + Jahr. But Whittle insists that he is planning to enter only a small percentage of the country's more than 200,000 medical waiting rooms and dismisses the threats as "legal sword rattling...
Thus far, Stern and its publisher, Gruner & Jahr, have emerged in the testimony as all-too-willing victims of the scam. Testimony has established that normal journalistic safeguards were disregarded shortly after Heidemann told his immediate editor in 1981 that he was on the trail of 27 volumes of the Nazi Fuhrer's diaries, written between 1932 and 1945. The diaries, Heidemann said, were rescued by farmers after a plane carrying Hitler's personal effects crashed near Dresden in the last days of World War II. Although the flamboyant Heidemann was known to be excessively preoccupied with Nazi memorabilia...
...with investigating the diaries fiasco. Others sought only to place the embarrassment behind them. Many called for the resignation of Henri Nannen, 69, who has been Stern's publisher since the magazine was founded in 1948. Others hinted that blame extends high into Stern's parent corporation, Gruner & Jahr, and even into the holding company, Bertelsmann AG, a publishing conglomerate (1982 sales: $2.4 billion) that includes Bantam Books...
...copy) all right, but it was also depressing. Too many images of death, disease and disaster. "Pictures of animals being slaughtered," she shudders. No dream houses on fantasy islands. All that is about to change. After two years and about $30 million in losses, the German publishers Gruner & Jahr have just peddled the monthly Geo (circ. 256,000) to Los Angeles-based Knapp Communications, which publishes Architectural Digest and Bon Appétit. Geo's new editor in chief: none other than Rense. Says she: "The magazine will have no more news, no more ecology, no more people lying...