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...illustrious American dailies gone to that great newsstand in the sky, few have been so deeply mourned as New York's old Herald Tribune. Founded as the Tribune in 1841 by Horace Greeley, married in 1924 to the popular Herald, and killed in a 1966 shootout in the city's competitive marketplace, the Trib was for decades palpitating proof that a paper could be both serious...
Perhaps, because the old Trib did not go gently into that good nightside. The paper's overseas edition, the International Herald Tribune (circ. 118,000), is still published in Paris by IHT Corp., a joint venture of the New York Times, Washington Post and Whitney Communications, the old Trib's last owner. Accordingly, IHT Corp. is suing the owners of the new Trib for trademark infringement. The Trib, in turn, has sued IHT and the Times for harassment and antitrust violations, asking $7.5 million in treble damages. Saffir accuses IHT of trying to prevent his paper from appearing...
...modeling agency), Playboy Enterprises earned only $2 million on sales of $198 million in fiscal 1976, far below its 1973 earnings peak of $11.2 million. A year ago, Hefner hired Daniels, 48, a vice president of the Knight-Ridder chain. Daniels is a onetime newspaperman (city editor, the Miami Herald) and grandson of the late North Carolina publisher Josephus Daniels, who was Secretary of the Navy under Woodrow Wilson. He was reluctant to take on Hefner's problems but was wooed by the Chief Rabbit's salary offer of $250,000 annually, plus a $225,000 bonus...
...Lasky is often correct on the well-known major sins of past Presidents, he indiscriminately elevates every questionable act, no matter how trivial, to an impeachable offense. Thus Lasky portrays Kennedy's impulsive decision to cancel White House subscriptions to the New York Herald Tribune, which has since ceased publication, as a serious presidential assault on the press. He rates in the same category L.B.J.'s use of Lawyer Clark Clifford, who pleaded with a few newspaper editors not to report Walter Jenkins' arrest for homosexual acts (Clifford asked that Jenkins be allowed quietly to quit...
...Courier-Journal, simply blacks out with his felt-tip pen any anatomical displays that trouble him. "They call me the mad brassiere artist," says he. Other papers have for years had policies banning or limiting adult-film advertising, among them the Detroit News, Cleveland Plain Dealer and Miami Herald. Wrote Herald Executive Editor John McMullan last June in welcoming the new puritan revival: "A newspaper, after all, is only a guest in your home...