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...last Fascist police went into action. All street sales of Osservatore Romano outside the Vatican were prohibited. In Vatican City a newsstand was set up, guarded by agents of the Holy See. Guards were stationed inside the Santa Anna Gate, along the dead-end street which leads to the Osservatore Romano office. Last week's print order dropped to 35,000 copies, and half of these were stacked in the plant, undelivered...
Manhattan theatregoers know Don Freeman for his theatre drawings in the Times and Herald Tribune. Others know his Newsstand, the one-man magazine of lithographs of metropolitan life which he gets out four times a year. Last week he swam into the ken of gallerygoers, with his first one-man show of paintings, at Manhattan's Associated Artists' Galleries...
Small potatoes, as circulation itself, is TIME'S circulation abroad. Besides the 4,000 copies mailed to subscribers, some 3,300 copies have crossed the Atlantic each week for newsstand distribution in the British Isles and on the Continent. This has been chiefly for the convenience of U. S. citizens living and traveling abroad, although an increasing number of Europeans read TIME. During the past year TIME has got into difficulties in the four most important European countries...
...Germany single issues were frequently banned from the newsstands. Last May Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler signed an order banning all future issues of TIME from Germany (TIME, May 29). The week before, TIME had carried Herr Himmler's picture on its cover, had chronicled his career. Newsstand circulation of the magazine amounted to about 75 copies...
Without distribution by the wholesalers, TIME lost about 1,500 circulation in England. But the wholesalers do not entirely control newsstand circulation. TIME'S distributors, Milton Gorringe Ltd., went straight to the retailers, sold some 750 copies on newsstands and on the streets last week...