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...porn is scarcely confined to such strips. In Houston, the Bellaire News, which is a combination of a newsstand and a smut shop, is taking applications for the job of topless chauffeur who will whisk tourists in a black Cadillac from downtown hotels to its back room porno parlor. Ex-Prostitute Xaviera Hollander has sold 9 million copies of her paperbacks. Some 780 American theaters, including many elegant first-run houses, routinely show X-rated movies 52 weeks a year...
...magazine did not appeal to executives at Safeway Stores, Inc., the nation's largest supermarket chain (1975 sales: $9.7 billion). After a memo alerting stores to the issue went out from the chain's Oakland, Calif, headquarters last month, some Safeway stores removed the magazine from their newsstand shelves...
Stein said the hawkers were successful when the Phoenix and The Real Paper were considered underground papers, but that increasing public acceptance of the papers, leading to greater newsstand sales, has hurt the hawkers...
...recent problem is the paper's circulation, which is off by about 5% from last year - a decline that O'Neill attributes mostly to a rise in the newsstand price from 10? a copy to 15?. Yet advertising is up by 800,000 lines (v. a 5 million-line drop at the Times), and the News is still a moneymaker for the Tribune Co., which also publishes the Chicago Tribune and is largely owned by descendants of Joseph Medill...
...been going too well for Playboy. Advertising revenue is down 7½%, and newsstand sales are down nearly 17%. For the first time, Playboy's circulation (5.8 million, v. 3.7 million for Penthouse) has fallen short of its 6 million-copy guarantee; the magazine last month began offering partial refunds to advertisers. Playboy, however, still makes money, while Hefner's nonpublishing sidelines mostly do not. Playboy Enterprises, Inc., the parent firm, last week announced its third consecutive losing quarter. Playboy is considered by its competitors as still relatively mild. "Bondage is where the action is right...