Word: orvil
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OBERLIN COLLEGE Orvil E. Dryfoos, president and publisher of the New York Times LL.D...
Only one man has even been able to appeal to all these groups and find support almost everywhere in the state--Orvil Faubus. Even a sharp critic admits that he is "the most successful politician who has ever come out of the state of Arkansas"; and with his retirement, announced two weeks ago, a real power vacuum has been created...
...turned a profit every year, though not what one might expect from the fattest, most prestigious newspaper in the land. Sometimes the paper's profit margin has been paper thin: as little as $61,000 in 1954-on a gross income of $1,232.000. Last week Publisher Orvil E. Dryfoos issued the Times's 1961 annual report. As daily circulation rose to a record 713,514 and Sunday circulation to a record 1,384,200, the Times sold $100 million worth of ads. On gross revenues of $117 million, reported Dryfoos, the Times netted $587,986 after taxes...
...Samuel I. Newhouse, a man who has spent a lifetime buying newspapers (he now has 14) and making them pay, has never seriously shopped in New York; he feels that Manhattan's field of seven will ultimately shrink to four. Times Publisher Orvil Dryfoos, agrees that the presence of seven Manhattan dailies is "freakish." Says Dryfoos, without naming those papers he thinks are doomed: "Within ten years there's bound to be a different lineup...
...newspaper problem than Broker Manno's statement that seven newspapers are more than New York will support. For not even seven newspapers may be enough for a city with a potential metropolitan-area readership exceeding 9,000,000. This possibility has occurred to New York Times Publisher Orvil Dryfoos. although he puts it another way. "We're successful," said he, "because of the emphasis we put on the first syllable in the word 'newspaper.' There is ample room for serious treatment regardless of the time of day-including the afternoon. Papers that don't supply...