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Died. Howard D. Johnson, 75, founder of the roadside restaurant and motel chain that bears his name; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Dissatisfied as the proprietor of a drugstore and newsstand during the '20s, Johnson went looking for a product "I could call by my own name." He settled first on ice cream, opened a beachside stand, then in 1929 launched his first restaurant in Quincy, Mass. He then combined the Howard Johnson name and know-how with money from other small entrepreneurs by franchising the familiar orange, blue and white highway rest stops across the country. They...
Cousins greeted his newsstand customers and 75,000 charter subscribers with the Cousinsish statement that the "ultimate adventure on earth is the adventure of ideas," and added that World "would like to be part of that adventure." Cautiously, he went on to say that the "editors do not regard this issue as a definitive expression of their ideas about World" because "a new magazine is not born fully formed...
However, Nini said that overhead costs made it difficult for his newsstand to survive at all. "The help gets more than I'm getting," he said. He added that "it's expensive to pay wages to guys for standing out in the cold...
...added in the late Sixties: "Racial Informant (Ghetto)." The "Racial Informant" was hired to infiltrate specific black militant organizations. The "Racial Informant--Ghetto" is a resident of a black or brown ghetto who comes into contact with a large number of the residents every day: e.g., a bartender, barber, newsstand owner, etc. This informer is paid to keep an ear open for rumblings of impending riots or demonstrations, without actively attempting to penetrate a group...
According to Daniels, the Journal has ever 1000 subscribers, and a national newsstand circulation of 4000. "For $2.50 a year, you get two issues and possibly occasional special issues on very select, esoteric topics such as, for example, the political philosophy of Martin Luther King," said Daniels...