Word: nickels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...issue, Editors Barbara Epstein and Bob Silvers declared that "there may be sufficient demand in America to support a literary review of this sort." They announced that come September, they will begin publishing twice a month. They may even start paying their writers 5? a word-which is a nickel a word more than they have been paying...
...papers as usual, and sales are off 12.5%. The fat Times is faring best, say the dealers, with a dropoff of only 5%-not bad considering the fact that it has doubled its newsstand price to 10?. As for the Herald Tribune, which also hiked its price by a nickel, circulation is off-but just how much will not be known until the Audit Bureau of Circulation releases its next official, semiannual report sometime after Sept. 30. "It has held up better than we anticipated," says Trib President Walter Thayer cautiously...
...NICKEL MISERIES (210 pp.)-Ivan Gold -Viking...
...Faceless Voyagers, a parable about violence, tells of the damage that can be done to someone by a lunatic armed with a fistful of keys. The Nickel Misery of George Washington Carver Brown studies a Negro soldier going through basic training and treats him as a sort of super-minority-the classic fall guy, mocked and persecuted even by his fellow Negroes. Taub East takes up the theme of alienation and minorities in terms of an amateur rabbi-an enlisted man in occupied Japan-brooding about his kinship with the eta, the "unmentionable outcast class, persecuted in accord with antique...
...Additional revenue must be obtained," said Board Chairman Arthur Hays Sulzberger and Publisher Orvil E. Dryfoos, "to make up for our losses." Which is no news to New Yorkers, who have been paying twice as much (10?) for the Times ever since its reappearance last month. Some found the nickel boost too much to bear, and some discovered during the 114-day strike that they could live without the Times. The result: circulation last month was down 6.7% from April...