Word: newsstands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Recollections. Newsstand sales rocketed. The Los Angeles Times almost doubled its press run of 50,000, still came close to selling out. In Washington, dailies had an average gain of 10,000 readers apiece, and everywhere papers were grabbed up as soon as they hit the stands. Editors dug hard for local angles. The Atlanta Journal remembered that Golfer Bobby Jones had once played golf with the King, and interviewed him on the King's game. New York Daily News Columnist John O'Donnell, in a rare moment of benign relaxation, fondly recalled that the King was known...
Then Editor Crawford bumps off his wife.* Despite all he can do to cover his trail without arousing suspicion, it is Newshawk Derek's brilliant hunches and painstaking detective work that finally expose Crawford on his own gaudy front page-and push newsstand sales higher than ever...
...picture of me on the cover of TIME has changed my entire life. Where formerly my hours were spent playing golf and chasing girls, I now while away the days loitering around Beverly Hills' largest newsstand, selling copies of the Dec. 31 issue of TIME at premium prices . . . Yesterday, despite the fact that it was raining, I made $13. This is all tax free, for I steal the copies of TIME while the owner of the newsstand is out eating lunch...
Over his San Juan newsstand in Texas' lower Rio Grande Valley, Quentin Newcombe tacked a sign: "The Valley Evening Monitor, the Valley Morning Star and the Brownsville Herald are . . . against our American public-school system. Buy other newspapers and help drive these objectionable carpetbaggers from our valley." The "carpetbagger" Newcombe meant is 73-year-old Raymond Cyrus Hoiles, a pinch-faced Californian who looks and acts as if he had just bitten into an unripe persimmon...
Even Joe Stalin couldn't buy a copy of "The Daily Worker" in Cambridge. The Communist organ hasn't appeared on a local newsstand for over two years...