Word: newsstande
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trouble was caused, oddly enough, by an obscure book published in the U.S. 14 years ago. One day last month a rabble-rousing Moslem editor named Ishaq Almi from Kanpur in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, chanced to find on a newsstand a cheap Indian reprint of Living Biographies of Religious Leaders by Henry and Dana Lee Thomas. Inside Almi found a foreword by Uttar Pradesh's Governor Kanialal M. Munshi, director of the Bombay firm which published the book in India, praising it as "worthwhile reading." He also found a biography of Mohammed with the following...
...prediction was not long in coming true. Reader's Digest immediately announced an increase of up to 13% in advertising rates and hinted at a possible 10? boost in its 25? newsstand price. TIME set no figures but said that an increase in its advertising and circulation rates would be announced for Jan. 1, 1957, when the new tax goes into effect...
...customer stopped at a Turkish newsstand and asked for a copy of a newspaper called Freedom. "We have no Freedom" said the news vendor. "Then," said the customer, "I'll take a copy of LIFE." "We have no LIFE either." "Ah, well," sighed the customer, "I might have known, for where there's no freedom, there can be no life...
Confidential, whose 3,674,423 circulation now makes it the top single-copy newsstand seller in the U.S., has been attracting libel suits along with circulation. Last week Publisher Robert Harrison's bimonthly dirt digest admitted making its first payment for libel: a $9,000 out-of-court settlement to Lyle Stuart, editor of Expose (circ. 20,000), a muckraking monthly tabloid...
Last week the companies promised to behave in a consent decree and the Justice Department dropped its attempt to split them. Union News, though still controlled by American, must "buy, display and sell magazines on the basis of [its] own interests" as a newsstand vendor. The decree also prohibits American telling publishers that it can get preferential treatment on Union newsstands...