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...Area homes. Uniformed guards were posted at the biweekly's St. Louis printing plant. Randolph Hearst ordered a reporter at his San Francisco Examiner to find out whether the magazine's rumored scoop had anything to do with his daughter Patty. Rolling Stone Founder and Publisher Jann Wenner, 29, told the reporter no and branded the talk as empty gossip...
...Jann Wenner, 28, is known around the San Francisco offices of the biweekly Rolling Stone as "Citizen Wenner." The more or less jocular analogy to William Randolph Hearst is apt: Wenner is a brilliant, brash autocrat with an eye for lucrative markets and talented writers. Perceiving a vast audience for a rock-music magazine, he borrowed $7,500, produced his first issue in 1967. Since then, the staff has grown from six to 90, circulation has jumped to 415,000, and Stone's irreverent, meandering and sometimes erratic reportage has been extended to politics and society in general...
...York Magazine reported this week that Jann Wenner, editor of Rolling Stone, is also interested in buying The New Republic...
...firm was spending too much money for research (about 15% of revenues, v. 7% to 12% for other firms). Hoffmann-La Roche executives were so incensed by the British order that they called the first press conference in the company's 77-year history to protest. Said Chairman Jann: "They accused us of doing too much research! Until now, all scientists have expressed the opinion that so many problems are unsolved that every possible effort should be made to solve them...
...Roche executives contend that the price of widely used drugs must be set high in order to subsidize the heavy development costs of new drugs-some of which can never be profitable because they are sold only in small quantities to treat rare diseases. Says Roche Chairman Adolf W. Jann: "There are just a handful of drugs priced at the level we need to recover the extremely high research costs of all drugs...