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...days, in newspapers, magazines and special television broadcasts, the death of a popular entertainer took precedence over wars, diplomatic démarches and economic crises. Newsstands were blanketed with cover stories: in TIME, Newsweek, PEOPLE, New York, Us, the Village Voice, Soho News, Boston Phoenix, Cash Box, Record World, Rolling Stone, Paris Match and innumerable others. But the magazines were not there for long-readers scooped them up in record numbers. New York magazine's tribute to Lennon was, at 60,000 newsstand copies, its all time bestselling issue. Both Newsweek and TIME printed 100,000 more copies than...
...fees. In some cases, commercialism got out of hand and taste was trampled. The New York Post published a ghoulish Page One picture of Lennon taken at the city morgue after his death, dubbing the shot "historic." The National Enquirer printed the photo in color. Us magazine raised its newsstand price to $2.50 from 75? for a special Lennon edition, with an "exclusive" of "John and Yoke's last photo session." It was not; the last was Rolling Stone's, conducted hours before the shooting. A startling picture from that session, showing a nude Lennon embracing a fully...
...empty eyes to wander over the shuffling stream of pedestrians. Every few minutes a passerby drops some coins in the old Jew's plastic dish, and he nods, mumbling a thank you. But his crudely lettered sign does not beg for charity; it states simply, "Blind Man's Newsstand." For 30 cents you do more than ease your conscience; you get the late city edition of the New York Post...
...Francisco Examiner sells every day. When circulation spurted another 136,604 in the first three months of this year-surpassing the New York News, then the nation's largest daily-the Journal (circ. 1.8 million) eased up on radio and television promotion and raised its newsstand price from 30? to 35?. Warren H. Phillips, 54, chairman of the parent Dow Jones & Co.,* said the paper simply could not satisfy the demand: "If we let it go on at that rate, we'd eat up our newsprint supply long before the end of the year...
...Steven Kelly, manager of the adjacent Nini's Corner newsstand, said business had picked up "just a little...