Word: paper
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When the New York World Journal Tribune died unexpectedly last May, the New York Times and the New York Daily News seemed the likeliest candidates to put out an afternoon paper. They had the printing capacity, the know-how, and the urge to expand...
...memo, Times Publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger explained that "several study groups representing nearly every department had made projections" for the new paper. But the "answers were not encouraging." Sulzberger added that "major talent and time would be diverted from the Times to the new publication. I can tell you that this added a great deal to the unattractiveness of the whole proposal." He also was not eager to tangle with ten aggressive newspaper unions that had struck four times in the past five years and had helped kill five newspapers in that period. They are still resisting automation more relentlessly...
Survival of the Weak. Some observers felt that neither the Times nor the News had ever had any intention of bringing out a new paper: they simply wanted to scare off anyone who wanted to come into the afternoon field...
...Times, it is true, did produce two dummy papers. The second and more ambitious of the two efforts was called, somewhat imposingly, the New York Forum. A 40-page paper all in one section, it still put considerable emphasis on hard news...
...Smith writes a syndicated sports col umn that appears in the Trib; Terence Smith covers the Mideast for the New York Times. When the Washington Post bought into the Paris Trib and the New York Times international later merged with it, all of them tumbled into the same paper...