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...resolutely plunked down all its chips on violent crimes and eye-catching scandal. Today, Boston residents who want their news served up with an eye to long-term significance, not short-term sensation, know they are down to one choice And for them, the morning newsstand routine of reaching for the Globe now also includes time out to cluck at the Herald...
There have been two disastrous days in the history of Washington's Union Station. The first was Jan. 15, 1953, when a train hurtled beyond the tracks, through a newsstand and into the main concourse, where it smashed through the concrete floor and landed in the baggage room. Miraculously, no one was killed. The second was Feb. 29,1968, when Congress decided to save the magnificent old building. From this intrusion, Union Station has never recovered...
...herpes calls a day. Calls seeking advice also came to the offices of TIME and were referred to doctors, many of whom reported an increase in inquiries about herpes. Readers also apparently recommended the issue to friends. Said a manager of Atlanta's Eastern Newsstand Corp.: "The following week people were still asking...
...cover lines. Newsweek (domestic circulation 2.95 million, compared with TIME'S 4.4 million) has been losing advertising pages and advertising revenue (the latter is down 6% for the first four months of this year; TIME'S is up 2%). News-Editor Bernstein week's U.S. newsstand sales have also been dropping, compared with TIME...
...Tribune Editor Charles Bailey. The new product will preserve the Star name and some of its arts and neighborhood features, as a lure to its former readers, and will maintain a limited afternoon presence, with a press run of 30,000 to 40,000 copies for newsstand sale. Some 86 employees, 51 from the editorial staffs, will be let go by the two papers. The company softened the blow for those dismissed with severance pay of at least 26 weeks. Isaacs, who was "traveling" last week, left behind a front-page story about trying to publish a newspaper "that everybody...