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...illustrious American dailies gone to that great newsstand in the sky, few have been so deeply mourned as New York's old Herald Tribune. Founded as the Tribune in 1841 by Horace Greeley, married in 1924 to the popular Herald, and killed in a 1966 shootout in the city's competitive marketplace, the Trib was for decades palpitating proof that a paper could be both serious...
...magazine has recovered somewhat this year; first-quarter ad pages were ahead 30% and newsstand sales were up 10%, though total circulation is down a bit, to 1 million. The new management hopes to extend that rally-and make Esquire more timely-by shortening its Rip Van Winklesque lead time (the January issue is now in preparation) and doubling the magazine's frequency. Felker, 51, is tight-lipped about what else may mark his reign, but emphatic about what will not. Still smarting from his takeover by Murdoch, he has worked out an agreement with Harmsworth, whose firm...
...magazine so far lacks the style and focus of its competitor, and seems to have leveled out in readership and advertising gains. New West's subscription-renewal rate is running at a disappointing 40%, v. L.A. 's robust 76%; the latter also has a healthy newsstand circulation at $1.50, 50% more than New West's at $1. As a further measure of L.A. 's success, the magazine and two smaller CHC publications will be bought next week by ABC for $ 10.5 million. Four years ago, Felker could have taken...
Miller has also boosted newsstand sales by featuring a show-biz celebrity on the cover each month. The August cover offering a guide to 500 Southern California restaurants, pictures Rex Harrison awaiting dinner with a salivating smile-and an uncorked bottle of Chateau Latour '69. That, in the kingdom of Gallo is class...
Faced with returns of thousands of unsold newsstand copies, Playboy has now cut back its circulation guarantee from 5.4 million copies a month, to 4.5 million-exactly the same as its upstart rival Penthouse. (Hustler and Playboy's naughtier younger brother Oui are the other two top sellers.) Since with age and success Playboy has become the most "conservative" of the sex magazines, some might argue that its newsstand decline only proves Gresham's law. But this morality play isn't all that simple. It has more to do with society's shifting sexual standards...