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LIFE promised to scour the world for the best pictures, to edit them with feeling for history and drama, and to publish them on fine paper???a feat made possible by the recent development of fast-drying inks, the engineering of heating units on presses to dry them immediately, and the manufacture of coated paper in rolls...
...money-saving maneuver, quick to invest in new machinery when it promises to cut costs, he manages to make even sick papers pay?occasionally with a helping hand from luck. Shortly after selling the St. Louis Globe-Democrat to Newhouse in 1955, Publisher E. Lansing Ray died, leaving the paper???and the surprised Newhouse?$1,000,000 in life insurance...
Still Dropping. But merging papers is only one of collectivization's many forms. Among small dailies, the tendency today is to form into an "intercity" paper???a single daily replacing two or more in neighboring towns. Today there are more than 70 such papers, some of them with sizable circulations: the Herald-News, serving Passaic and Clifton, N.J. (circ. 74,227); the San Gabriel Valley (Calif.) Tribune in West Covina spreads its 52,152 circulation over seven neighboring towns...
...paper???a single sheet printed on both sides?looked exactly like William Randolph Hearst's Los Angeles Examiner, but it was named The Front Page. And in place of the celebrated Hearstpaper motto: "A Paper For People Who Think," this was "A Paper For People Who Drink." It was all very gay. On the front page were seven little pictures of Miss Davies, one big picture of her in pajamas; and a bigger picture of a group of platter-lipped Ubangi natives with the caption: "Friends Meet Famous Star At Train. . . . Davies stepped off the train this morning all aglow...
...Detroit. The boys who deliver the Detroit Free Press to the doors of subscribers grunted and staggered under their loads last Sunday. The paper???largest ever published in Detroit?included 114 pages of rotogravure in addition to the usual sections, all for the glory of the Free Press's 100th anniversary.* The Centennial Edition, edited by Malcolm W. Bingay who conducts the paper's daily "Good Morning" column, reviewed the history of the paper, of Detroit and of mankind for the past hundred years. Crowning item was a rotogravure page with a large photograph of Poet Edgar Albert ("Eddie") Guest...