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Another potential fatality is Hearst's tabloid morning Mirror, which, despite the second highest daily circulation in the U.S. (851,928), is famishing for want of advertising income. The strike presents Hearst with a convenient excuse for folding the Mirror into its New York afternoon paper, the Journal-American...
Shattered. How long New York's news drought would endure depended on the staying powers of the opposing sides. At the Journal-American, Publisher J. Kingsbury Smith was desperate to toss in the towel. "I am proposing here and now," he said, "that President Kennedy or Governor Rockefeller, or New York's Mayor Wagner, or all three, issue a public appeal to the striking workers to agree to a 60-day truce in the strike." Except for this querulous broadside, both sides seemed grimly set on a showdown. "I think it only fair to state." said Amory Bradford...
Uncomfortable Awareness. Technically, the union was striking against New York's four strongest papers-the morning Times and News and the afternoon Journal-American and World-Telegram. Ostensibly, the union's agreement to permit the morning Herald Tribune and Mirror and the afternoon Post to continue publishing was based on the idea that this would allow New Yorkers to get something in the way of news to read. But behind this action was the uncomfortable awareness that the Post and Mirror are primarily too weak financially to withstand a strike of any duration. The publishers saw the four...
...STRUCK-NOT STRUCK OUT." boasted the New York Daily News in a Page One headline. But there was little enough to brag about. Despite a walkout of 1,123 Newspaper Guild members, the News struggled into print with one skimpy 16-page issue-run off on Hearst's Journal-American presses. Then the News suspended publication, the first and so far the only strike-bound Manhattan daily in what had originally looked like a management-labor showdown...
...dailies scrap for the summer reader's indifferent eye, the news dearth becomes even more crucial. The World-Telegram launched listless crusades against pigeons (they carry lice and disease) and buses (the service is lousy). Amid a welter of daily stories about the Monroe suicide, Hearst's Journal-American still found two pages on which to reproduce a dozen letters that former U.S. President Herbert Hoover got from children. One desperate day, the Herald Tribune, which has been running a daily picture of unrepaired potholes in New York streets, abruptly shifted this feature onto Page...