Word: mckinnons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Newspaper competition comes next week to war-big San Diego (estimated pop. 390,000; 1940 pop. 203-341). Clinton Dotson McKinnon announced that the first edition of his New Dealish evening Journal would be published on St. Patrick's Day (because his mother was Irish). The Journal will break the San Diego general newspaper monoply of rich, myopic, 79-year-old Colonel Ira Clifton Copley owner of the arch-Republican morning Union (circ. 44,359) and evening Tribune-Sun (circ...
...Colonel's challenger, Clinton McKinnon, 37 is little bigger than an outsize jockey. It has taken him only about three years to gallop an idea, and little else, into his San Diego daily. The idea: local news sheets handed free to Los Angeles County's swarming war workers (TIME, Nov. 2, ). Last August McKinnon sold these throwaways - the San Fernando Valley Times, Los Angeles Aircralt Times, Long Beach Shipyard Times (they had grossed $700,000 in ads in 1942) 1942)-and 1942)-and moved to San Diego where he set up the triweekly Progress-Progress-Journal...
...Hardship." In planning his daily, McKinnon neatly got around the newsprint shortage. When the WPB refused to let him transfer his job-printing quota to a newspaper allocation, he put together his authorizations for job work, circulars and the Progress-Journal, kept out of WPB's newspaper limitation jurisdiction by not applying for second-class mailing rights...
...five track men sent by Coach Jaako Mikkola, only Don McKinnon placed in the B.A.A. meet at the Boston Garden Saturday. MacKinnon, star hurdler, took fourth in a large field...
Facing dangerous competition and entering the Millrose Games for the first time since the Harvard-Yale-Princeton triangular meet ceased to be a featured event, the Crimson track squad is sweeping down to New York City to enter a mile-relay foursome and a hurdler, Captain Don McKinnon. The meet will be held tomorrow night in Madison Square Garden...