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...Newsstand sales of Confidential, once pegged at 3,600,000, went from bed to worse, were down to around 1,000,000 this week when Harrison announced he was chucking the whole business. The price? "Just say that it was enough," sighed Harrison, who is still beset by libel suits totaling $28 million. The new owners: a syndicate headed by cocky Hy Steirman, 36, who claims, "I've edited 1,000 second-rate magazines." Steirman announced plans to slip his new properties some pep pills. "The new Confidential won't look under beds...
...adds, has "pressed for its success in ways in which we didn't intend to. This has had the effect of scaring people." It pressed newsstand operators, doughnut men, photographers, and others; all little men, marginalia in a growing concern. The HSA is growing; no doubt about that...
Without bosoms or ballyhoo, the newcomer is hopelessly outglittered by many of its flashy neighbors on newsstand racks. But this week the second issue of a modest quarterly named Space Journal is selling like cheesecake. As an unofficial byproduct of the Jupiter-designing experts at the Army Ballistic Missile Agency in Huntsville, Ala., the magazine treats its out-of-this-world subject in down-to-earth language. Says one Space Journalist : "The American people have a hunger for space information, and we're going to keep them well...
Magazine sales go down but cigarette, candy and aspirin sales go up under the strain of reading period, College newsstand operators reported yesterday. Peter Diamadopoulos 7G, a director of the Harvard Student Agencies, central purchasing service, suggested, "Most of the guys seem to be pretty tired," as the cause...
...directors of the central purchasing agency ironed out many of the complaints raised by newsstand operators in an impromptu meeting yesterday afternoon...