Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Exactly one year after it began, the eleven-union strike against the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner is technically a stalemate. Publisher George R. Hearst Jr., 41, grandson of the crusading William Randolph, still directs a staff of strike breakers inside his boarded-up building. Behind other barricades just a block away, some 50 strikers still gather each day to dispense food and subsistence checks, plot strategy and pounce hopefully on every rumor of Hearst's troubles. Actually, the strike is over-and the clear winner is George Hearst...
Heavy Costs. Hearst's victory was not cheap. Strikers followed carrier boys on their routes, noted houses taking the paper, later claimed to have talked 125,000 subscribers into canceling. They persuaded 200 news dealers to stop selling the paper, smashed hundreds of Herald-Examiner vending machines. In all, circulation dropped from 730,000 to 540,000, at a cost to Hearst of about $2,000,000. Advertisements for the year slipped about 7,000,000 lines behind the year before, a loss of at least $7,000,000. Hearst was forced to lower his ad rates, probably losing...
...private law practice. Rogers rejoined the New York-Washington firm now known as Royall, Koegel, Rogers & Wells, practicing general corporate law. He is now a senior partner, with an income of about $300,000 a year, clients such as 20th Century-Fox, the Associated Press and the International Herald Tribune, a home in Bethesda, Md., and a New York apartment overlooking the East River. Yet his life-style is not pretentious. His Washington office is smallish. His home is roomy but not luxurious; the swimming pool in back is a small one. After learning that he would be the next...
Last week the Whitney Communications Corporation reached agreement with Art in America's Lee Ault to buy (for an undisclosed amount) its first wholly-owned publication since the New York Herald Tribune sank more than two years...
Despite his Herald Tribune disaster,.Whitney never got completely out of publishing. His corporation has long owned three other publications: Parade, a newspaper Sunday supplement; Harvest Years, a monthly for the retired; and Interior Design, a trade journal for interior decorators. Whitney Communications is also the controlling stockholder in the Paris-based International Herald Tribune...