Word: newsstande
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that "a determined effort by a segment of the motion picture industry to 'get' this magazine" was responsible for a Los Angeles indictment charging Confidential with criminal libel and three other counts (TIME, June 24). Invoking God, the Stars and Stripes and "the world's largest newsstand sale,"* Scandal-mag Publisher Robert Harrison declaimed: "We believe that the truths we have published have been in the best traditions of American journalism...
Middle-of-the-Road Survival. Last week the first, fat issue of the evening Citizen rolled off the presses in a converted warehouse. Within hours 8,000 newsstand copies had been snapped up; subscribers jammed the Citizen's switchboard with calls of congratulation. Said Kamin: "With the climate Hoiles created, we couldn't miss...
...separate action resulting from the Adams case. Britain's biggest newsstand distributor, W. H. Smith & Son. announced that henceforth it will 1) screen all foreign newspapers and magazines for material that seems to violate the libel and contempt laws, and 2) handle no publications that do not have a British representative who can be held responsible in the event of court judgments. In addition, Smith's asked foreign publishers to indemnify them against fines and other expenses levied on them as a result of material in publications distributed by them...
...that the ultimate responsibility for the press rests with the newspaper and magazine owners. "They have the power not only of the press but of the SUP-press," says Churchill. As if by magic, rumpled, rambling Critic Churchill got additional ammunition to back the charge. Britain's biggest newsstand distributor, which is loudly denounced in Churchill's book, has refused to handle it, on grounds that it might be libelous*; the book lambastes almost every major London daily from the Times to the tabloids, but most refused to reply or to review...
This week the February Ladies' Home Journal hits the newsstands with Swift's ad. Admen estimated that Swift, whose coupons will have reached a total of 15,075,137 subscribers and newsstand buyers, would not have to redeem more than 5%, the standard figure for such promotions. But last week's sales indicated that the company might have to pay considerably more than the million dollars it would normally allot for the event...