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Each week thousands of railroadmen, truck drivers and pilots are at their jobs around the clock to speed TIME to a newsstand conveniently near you. Recently, we asked one of our Midwest correspondents to interview one of them-a St. Louis truck driver-to give us a closer look at one of the many people who handle newsstand copies of TIME in transit. He was 48-year-old John Deibel, a senior highway pilot for the Consolidated Forwarding Co. If your copy of TIME this week came from a newsstand in the St. Louis area, it was hauled from Chicago...
Many readers, not bothering to change address, pick up copies as they travel. Already our newsstand men are making plans to fill the need for copies at the vacation spots. If this year is like most, the Cape Cod area will demand a 700% increase over its winter order. Atlantic City, Asbury Park and the Minnesota lake area will quadruple, northern Michigan will increase five times, and Yellowstone, a winter shutdown, will jump to several hundred copies a week...
Died. Emilie Baker Loring, 87, who turned out 30 drugstore-and-newsstand romantic novels (There Is Always Love, When Hearts Are Light Again) which sold over a million copies, a success she attributed to the "wholesome love" she wrote about ; after long illness ; in Wellesley, Mass...
...eight big policy wheels in the Negro section of Chicago netted $1,000,000 a year. A gambling casino in New Jersey cleared $255,271 in a good year, one in Florida, $205,000. Tony Giz-zo, a mobster in Kansas City, admitted that his little newsstand handbook netted him more than $100,000 a year. In all, the committee estimated "conservatively," $20 billion changes hands every year in the U.S. in the big business of illegal gambling...
...these copies to newsstands and subscribers as quickly as possible, our traffic department had rearranged all of its schedules. Copies from our printing plants in Chicago, Philadelphia and Los Angeles were to go to the most distant points by special airlift. For example, copies for Spokane would leave the Chicago plant at 9 p.m., arrive in Spokane via Northwest Airlines plane at 9:44 a.m. Thursday, be sped by special truck to newsstand distribution centers, and go on sale at the newsstands before noon...