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...Elliott, now dean of Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism, Newsweek was briefly known on Madison Avenue as a "hot book" because of improved editorial vitality and attendant advertising and circulation gains. (Newsweek's current U.S. circulation is 2.9 million, vs. TIME's 4.25 million.) Yet newsstand sales have slumped lately, and Graham is said to have been concerned that Kosner was making Newsweek too frivolous with his fondness for cover stories on pop culture and entertainment subjects. The week after Pope John Paul II made his historic return to Poland, for example, the magazine...
...general store, under the gaze of a ceramic bust of Elvis Presley, drivers can buy everything from iridescent oil paintings (often depicting trucks) to pantyhose. What they buy most is hats ($30) and boots (up to $150). The newsstand is jammed with copies of Overdrive, the CB Times and Country Music News. And in a concession to the growing number of female drivers, Vogue and Mademoiselle...
...learned that some perpetual subscribers value their subscriptions highly enough to include them in wills. More than 60 subscriptions have already passed on to other readers. Today, of course, the $60 investment is a blue chip. If a reader had purchased TIME at a newsstand every week during the past 49 years, he would have spent $788.65. Abraham Katz of Cambridge, Mass., however, regards his subscription as more than just a bargain. "To be a part of the magazine's growth during all these years," says the 75-year-old electrical-supplies distributor, "makes me very proud...
...their wit alone. That they could stand at all is a tribute to the universality of his satire. No one remembers W.H. Smith any more (the newspaper-stand magnate Gilbert caricatures as Sir Joseph Porter)--except the tourists to Great Britain who still see his name on every other newsstand. But no one can miss this general broadside against sinecures of any kind...
...good to see the Times back on sale again," an elderly gentleman amid a crowd of early-morning buyers at the Out of Town Newsstand said yesterday. Sale of the Times was still brisk by mid-afternoon, and one employee at Out of Town estimated that 2200 copies of the Times would be sold...