Word: newsstands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many readers apparently were as bored as the reporters. Newsstand sales of papers rarely showed an increase. Complained a Denver newsstand operator: "Sure I read about the trial, but there ain't much holler in the stories...
...making their audits, the A.B.C. auditors, who are highly trained certified public accountants, are given full access to a publication's circulation records. Then they verify these records by independent research. Records of both newsstand and subscription sales are studied and checked. Newsdealers' sales are tabulated, and deductions made for unsold copies. Subscription lists are checked and methods of selling subscriptions are noted...
...Harkness robberies, which occurred four days ago, saw a group of boys rifle the student-operated newsstand of 30 cartons of cigarettes and a number of magazines. None have been caught...
Also, two days ago, Cambridge youths broke into Harkness Commons and stole cigarettes and money from the newsstand...
...Worker last week, Platt shamefacedly confessed his sin. Wrote he: "I very carelessly lumped the tabloid weekly Jet with the others. Deplorable as it sounds, I never even looked through Jet until today. What happened was this: I was lunching at a newsstand and saw this title displayed together with others, and I jumped to the conclusion that they were all alike . . . Now that I have had a chance to look through Jet, I can see that it is quite different from the others." Then Platt confessed the worst...