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...death of famed Yachtsman Vincent Astor in 1959 put a large question mark over the future of Newsweek magazine. In his will Astor left his controlling 60% of Newsweek's stock-177,200 shares-to the Vincent Astor Foundation, a charitable trust that he established in 1948. Since then, the rumor that Newsweek is for sale has cropped up with a persistence that has defeated the magazine's continued efforts to deny it. Last week, confronted with fresh reports, Newsweek Board Chairman Malcolm Muir, 65, said that a group of colleagues were trying...
Announced Muir: "The Newsweek management group are at present engaged in negotiating with the Astor Foundation with a view to taking over the majority interest now held by the Foundation . . . The Astor Foundation announces it is not engaged in negotiation with any other prospective buyer...
...Wrong Approach. Unmentioned in Muir's statement was the fact that the Foundation had already done some dickering with other potential purchasers. Last summer, after the Foundation's Newsweek holdings-assessed for tax purposes at $4,857,052-were made public, expanding Newspaper Publisher Samuel Newhouse (who has paid cash for most of his 14 dailies) offered to buy the Astor shares for considerably more than market value. Newhouse's offer was rejected, reportedly on the insistence of Vincent Astor's widow, Brooke Russell Marshall Astor, a member of both the Newsweek and Foundation boards...
...directors are aware, the Astor Foundation's business is charity, not magazine publishing, and Newsweek is not an investment that can be left to manage itself. Vincent Astor left Newsweek in far better shape than he found it. When he got control in 1937, the magazine had reached a circulation of 250,000, but had cost its original investors $2,250,000 in four years and was dying of malnutrition; today it has a U.S. circulation of more than 1,400,000; and last year, on an estimated total of $30 million, it netted something under...
...some $775,000, out of which the federal tax-types got a miserly $198,552 as top bite. The French Republic got an unspeakable $1.02 as last lick. The New York appraisal also brought to light the makeup of Astor's investment portfolio. His biggest holding was in Newsweek, Inc., of which he owned 177,200 shares, valued at $4,857,052 by the state appraisers. Since Astor owned about 60% of Newsweek, Inc.'s outstanding shares, the value of its stock is presumably around...