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...unlikely that such injections of relatively young blood will materially change an operation that has worked well since E. W. Scripps established the Penny Press (later the Cleveland Press) on a borrowed $10,000 in 1878. Good and bad, fat and lean, solvent and insolvent, the Scripps-Howard newspapers are at the very least elastic. Unencumbered by the kind of tyrannous direction with which the late William Randolph Hearst suffocated initiative in his press empire, they remain supple enough to move with the times. And the times have undoubtedly changed vastly since the days of E. W. Scripps. "Newspapers...
Among institutional and industrial advertisers-and even in consumer-oriented industries where products are distinctively different and personal salesmanship is still a vital element-advertising is considered a "controllable'' expense to be cut in lean times. Thus General Motors, the world's biggest advertiser (1961 budget: $142 million), pegs its advertising budget for the coming year directly to what it thinks its sales will be. But for manufacturers of low-priced packaged goods such as beer, proprietary drugs and processed foods, advertising is the one thing that can notably increase sales-which is one reason...
Thank God, a winner at last. No clap-trap in this one, no humbug and no humdrum inanities. The lean years are over (briefly, at any rate); and good theatre, entertaining entertainment, intelligent humor and everything that's good have returned to the Boston stage. After which quotable phrases it is my duty to tell you that Beyond the Fringe, which opened at the Colonial Theatre night before last, is beyond doubt the cleverest and best piece of theatre that will come anywhere near Boston this year. I laughed my fool head...
Characteristically, when the $17.5 million refinery was tested last week, lean, amiable Del Rosario, 44, was halfway across the world in Manhattan, lining up investors for a chemical fertilizer plant to be built near the refinery. The refinery should save enough foreign exchange for oil imports to pay for itself in four years. The fertilizer plant will supply 60,000 tons of urea that now have to be bought abroad...
...Connection. Opium is the religion of the people in this picture. As it begins eight heroin addicts are flobbing around a dismal flat in Manhattan, neither drunk nor asleep, neither dead nor alive. They lean against the walls, they stare with empty eyes. Sometimes they splutter obscenities at each other for no reason sometimes they babble mindlessly about themselves. They are waiting. Waiting to make The Connection, "waiting for The Cowboy to gallop in on a white horse...