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Five o'clock at the newsstand. The shadows grow longer, the once-high stack of Crimsons dwindles to a single copy...
...largest nonreligious black weekly (the Muslim Bilalian News, formerly Muhammad Speaks, claims a circulation of 583,000). For most of its 67 years, the Amsterdam News has catered to the middle-class aspirations of Harlem's business and professional people. It is sold 90% on the newsstand, and its blazing red front-page headlines stress crime and gossip. But the rest of its news comes in quieter hues: close attention to black politics, knowledgeable reviews of black art, music and books, a World of Work page that offers stories on the movements of blacks in Government and corporate positions...
...marquee will shine out from 6 a.m. until midnight every day, Fred Cohen, who works at the newsstand, said yesterday. He added the board will start carrying United Press International releases in about a month...
Three summers ago, Newsweek let fly with a cover story that set a record for that magazine's newsstand sales, a record not broken until last week...
...nation's richest porn merchandisers of the '60s now spends his time in federal prison. In the 1950s Michael G. Thevis was part owner of a busy Atlanta newsstand. When he noticed that "90% of the sales came from 10% of the displays"?sex books?Thevis threw himself into porn. By 1970 he claimed control...