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...balance the ledger, this past winter also witnessed one of the brighter events in Scollay Square's recent history. The Rialto Theatre, which had been closed and out of repair for a year recently reopened as the only all-night movie house in Greater Boston. If you're lonesome, you'd be surprised how much of an old friend "Rocky" Lane can be toward...
...onetime literary editor on the Philadelphia Public Ledger, Walter Yust, 56, is used to deadlines, and his deadlines never stop coming. Every year, he puts out a whole new printing of the Britannica. He must decide which articles he thinks need rewriting, and what new subjects need be added...
Matter of Direction. Taken together, the two volumes show a purpose as relentless as a ledger's-the ledger of a society in the red. Taken singly, the books show little of their social arithmetic. It is as though they had been kept by a brilliant clerk who, in the first volume, scribbled a love story over his accounts, and in the second, glimpsing the significance of the figures he was adding, covered the pages with invective. The Telegraph is one of the most savagely witty books ever written...
...Newhouse was made publisher of the paper at 18. Within a year, he pulled the Times out of the red. After that, Newhouse bought other floundering papers in the New York area, including the Staten Island Advance, the Long Island Press and Star-Journal, and the Newark Star-Ledger. Newhouse hired better staffs, cut costs, built up a combined circulation of 580,000 ("V. 109,000 before he took over) and put the papers into the black...
...greater part of this deficit. But with current levies on high incomes plus the present popularity of donating money for specialized uses such as cancer or heart disease, the schools must make up their debits by unhealthy deficit financing. The only schools which are able to keep their ledger anywhere near balanced are the State schools which can count on a certain amount of tax money each year...