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Both Veit and Thayer predicted that the departure of the Mirror will carry 500,000 New York newspaper buyers into oblivion. If so, it would be a part of a vanishing act that began in 1957. That year, after raising their price to a dime, the three afternoon dailies collectively lost a 333,000 paid readership -only 46,000 of which has come back. After the city's 114-day newspaper strike last winter, another 500,000 buyers disappeared for good. If prophecies about the Mirror prove true, the total loss will soar past...
When newspapers die, they die suddenly. The death of the New York Mirror last week was no exception. The paper passed so swiftly into oblivion that even its own staff was taken by surprise, and the last issue was trapped forever in a host of minor ironies. On page 6, a series on Frank Sinatra promised another installment; on page 31, readers were asked, as usual, to send questions to the Mirror's "You Said It!" column and were offered the customary $10 reward. Only in a black-bordered announcement on page 2, under the heading MIRROR CEASES PUBLICATION...
...football foundry. For years, Coach Amos Alonzo Stagg had built teams that trounced the mighty universities of Chicago and California. By 1950, having climbed to tenth in the nation, Methodist-founded Pacific had progressed from stadiums seating 10,000 to 20,000 to 35,000-and into academic oblivion...
...tone of the session was set by Idaho's Democratic Senator Frank Church, the 1960 Democratic convention keynoter. Cried Church: "One man, in this day and age, clothed with the power of the presidency, can deliver us into fiery oblivion-foolishly, unnecessarily and finally, by just one error of judgment. Any American President who mistrusts the winds of freedom and tampers cavalierly with the delicate balance of terror upon which the peace presently depends, might well be the last American President...
...season for reruns. Last fall in Chicago, it took Charles ("Sonny") Liston 2 min. 6 sec. to pluck the heavyweight crown from Floyd Patterson. Last week in Las Vegas, Liston spent 2 min. 10 sec. pounding Patterson into boxing oblivion. Like a man killing a rabbit with a stick, he clubbed the hapless challenger to the canvas-gracelessly and methodically, his sulphur-and-obsidian eyes betraying neither pleasure nor anger. "It was just something I had to do," grunted Sonny, whose mind was obviously on something else...