Word: owner
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...battle between the Dallas Times Herald and its Big D rival, the Morning News, has been a rough, old-fashioned newspaper war, but last week one side in effect surrendered. The owner of the Times Herald, the Los Angeles-based Times Mirror Co., agreed to sell the paper for $110 million to MediaNews Group, a Woodbury, N.J., holding company with some three dozen small and medium-size papers...
...almost overtaken the Morning News in ads and circulation. But then the paper ran into management troubles. It dipped into the red during the first quarter of this year, while the tightly run News jumped to a formidable circulation lead (390,275 vs. 244,629). The News's owner, A.H. Belo Corp., could rightly claim victory, but perhaps the biggest winner was MediaNews President and CEO William Dean Singleton, 34. As an 18-year-old, Singleton had been turned down for a job by the Times Herald. Said he last week: "I figured the only way to work there...
...seems, than ever before. A hundred potential brides drop in every day, and 150 on Saturdays. A staff of 100 brings in samples from a stock of some 800 model bridal gowns, averaging $1,200 in price and topping out around $10,000. "Every girl is special, beautiful," insists Owner Hedda Kleinfeld Schapter. "These are custom dresses for noncustom $ people. How could a career girl come in here wearing Perry Ellis and accept anything less...
Priscilla Kidder, owner of the tony Priscilla of Boston bridal shops, is having the biggest year "dollarwise" of all her 45 in business. Phil Weiss, a wedding coordinator from Skokie, Ill., suggests, "Go to downtown Chicago on any given Saturday, and you'll see wedding parties of $15,000 to $40,000 all over the place." Philip Youtie, vice president of the Bridal Marketers Association of America and owner of a large bridal chain with headquarters in Fort Lauderdale, adds it up simply. "There are fewer brides but bigger weddings," he says. "People are bringing that money out of cubbyholes...
...Paul R. Corcoran, owner of the Harvard Shop, Inc. the company that operates the store, said that he plans to appeal the court's decision...