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Last week NEA, a little breathless after a scrimmage with "another American com-petitor" (not Hearst), signed up to pay the five little Dionnes about $50.000 a year for the exclusive privilege of making their "still" pictures for newspapers, magazines and commercial users,* for by now the Quins have become the world's greatest news-picture story, subscribed to for 1937 by 672 U. S. dailies with an aggregate circulation...
...Hearst, as is generally known, the American is more of a political pride than a profitable joy. Sometimes it makes money; more times it does not. Not long ago, with this fact in mind, Publisher Hearst cast his eye about, saw Pub lisher Block making money as a com petitor in Pittsburgh (TIME, Aug. 13); saw him conducting also a large, selfsupporting business in selling space for news papers not owned by him in cities far from where they are published. Publisher Hearst remarked that he would like to be interested in newspapers with "this man Block." Conferences...
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