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...Earnings for the parent company, which also owns Newsweek, six broadcasting stations and a paper mill, dropped to $5.4 million in this year's first half, from $7 million in the same period last year, while revenues rose to $ 152 million from $ 134 million last year...
...Karl, who is about 20 years older than his wife, the reasons for writing the book seem to have been more complex. For one thing, he was not just any starving free-lancer. He'd been a journalist since 1948 and had worked for Newsweek for 11 years, eventually becoming Los Angeles bureau chief. As he says himself, he "had a front-row seat on some of the most fantastic things that have happened." When the civil rights battles were raging in Selma, Birmingham and Oxford, he was there. When Medgar Evers, Martin Luther King, John Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy...
...asking Liberace how he lost his virginity? Apparently, that was not exactly what he had in mind when he left Newsweek to found his own weekly paper in Los Angeles--a paper that folded after only five months. "The paper was the first thing I'd failed at," Fleming says, his smooth, self-confident manners breaking momentarily. "Knocked me right on my ass--this being a society which doesn't look too kindly on failure...
...looks successful, with his tanned face, prematurely grey hair and slight paunch--like a rising executive or liberal politician on the make. He seems to be the kind of man who prizes his independence--who would rather interview Mae West on his own than cover a presidential campaign for Newsweek--and he says he doesn't miss being in the thick of things. "Well, occasionally I feel a pang," he admits. "When I heard about Patty Hearst being busted, I thought, son of a bitch, I'd sure like to get my hands on her, you know, for four...
...fact, the only publication which has not received it seriously is my old alma mater, Newsweek," Karl says a little huffily. The Newsweek review, which did not mention Fleming's former connection with the magazine, called the book "about as interesting--and titillating--as a protracted Merv Griffin show: 319 pages that manage to take most of the joy out of voyeurism...