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Monopoly on Merit. "This town can't support seven newspapers," says New York Newspaper Broker Vincent J. Manno. "If you added all seven together, you wouldn't come out with a net profit of $2,000,000 a year." To Scripps-Howard's Roy Howard (World-Telegram & Sun) and William Randolph Hearst Jr. (Journal-American, Mirror), the cost of keeping their papers going is worth it just for having New York as a prestige outlet for their chains...
Accent on News. These laments strike no nearer the heart of New York's newspaper problem than Broker Manno's statement that seven newspapers are more than New York will support. For not even seven newspapers may be enough for a city with a potential metropolitan-area readership exceeding 9,000,000. This possibility has occurred to New York Times Publisher Orvil Dryfoos. although he puts it another way. "We're successful," said he, "because of the emphasis we put on the first syllable in the word 'newspaper.' There is ample room for serious treatment...
...their space plugging the Senator's political interests, had found the going rough, even before his death in 1951. Since then, they have been further battered in a fight for control between two management factions. While the battle dragged on in court, Manhattan Newspaper Broker Vincent J. Manno (TIME, Sept. 7, 1953) persuaded the stockholders to forget their differences and sell out to Stauffer, who promised that "general policies and personnel will undergo little change...
Verdi: I Lombard! (Aldo Bertocci, tenor; Mario Petri, bass-baritone; Miriam Pirazzini, mezzo-soprano; Maria Vitale, soprano; Gustavo Gallo, tenor; Orchestra of Radio Italiana, Manno Wolf-Ferrari conducting; 6 sides LP). Verdi's fourth opera (1843) is a violent story of love and religion in the 11th Century...
...Manno: "All local fellows ... All we are doing is bankrolling him . . . and keep the-like he calls-the muscle men . . . These people can be called in too, you know...