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Right now, the newspaper strikes in New York and Cleveland have whetted the demand for TIME, and in the New York City area alone, 50,000 added copies are being sold each week. But TIME's newsstand circulation-always a useful index of a magazine's vitality-has been extraordinarily healthy right along. The December average sale was 28% ahead of December 1961, and each weekly issue since last June has outsold the corresponding issue of the year before...
Unfortunately for the Observer, there do not seem to be many such readers around. Approaching its first birthday, U.S. journalism's first serious claimant to the title of national newspaper is losing ground. From a starting 422,000, weekly circulation is down to 200,000. Newsstand sales approach the vanishing point...
...running is Italy's Settebello, which barrels along at 98 m.p.h. between Rome and Milan, has cut the rail trip by two hours to 6 hr. 20 min. It carries only 160 passengers, and they can enjoy piped music, patronize the train's barber, manicurist, telephone, newsstand and shower. Despite a 45% surcharge, the Settebello is often sold...
...really the greatest newspaper in the world?" asked a newsstand clerk at Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel. In San Francisco. Hearst's Examiner gave the newcomer a qualified editorial greeting: "It cannot and won't attempt to compete with us in our traditional role as San Francisco's and Northern California's No. 1 newspaper. Welcome to our shore." The Los Angeles Times dismissed the debut in two paragraphs back in the business section. Later, its management chortled over how many Los Angeles stories the immigrant had missed...
...brought hundreds of inquiries about reprints, including two requests from U.S. Government agencies interested in making a clear statement on the nature of the free world's position in Berlin. The James Monroe cover (Sept. 21), one of this year's most popular issues on the newsstand, inspired a flow of congratulations and requests for reprints of both cover and story. As a result, we have prepared a color reproduction of The Wall painting, suitable for framing, as well as a reprint of the Monroe cover and story. You may have either or both at no charge...