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...heavy investments in a bigger staff and a new Sunday edition failed to make the expected handsome payoff: in recent weeks, Stern fired or dropped 13 staffers, was reportedly losing heavily on his Sunday paper. Last week the Item (circ. 99,658) got a helping hand against the Times-Pic (circ. 180,584) and the States (circ. 99,339) from an outside party: the U.S. Government...
...Louisiana federal court, the Department of Justice filed a civil antitrust suit against the two Nicholson newspapers, Publisher Nicholson and three top executives. Specifically, the Times-Pic and the States were accused of unfairly attempting to eliminate their only competitor by 1) forcing advertisers to buy space in both Nicholson papers at a special combined rate, 2) giving advertisers unreasonably low rates in the States based on their ad volume in the Times-Pic, 3) persuading newsstands to stop selling the Item by threatening to withdraw the Times-Pic and the States. Publisher Nicholson's only comment...
Daily Herald. "The Pic" now in third place with a 4,734,000 circulation, manages to cram its pages with sex, invariably in the guise of deploring pornography and impropriety. Sample: when a schoolmaster and his 10-year-old girl pupils went off into the woods after watching a school sex-instruction film (he got three months in jail), the Pic devoted Page One to stills from the banned movie under the pious headline NOW PARENTS CAN JUDGE FOR THEMSELVES. Last week readers were treated to a leering exclusive, CONFESSIONS OF A FAKE DOCTOR, which the paper printed just...
...Pic has also turned sex into sales with its own Kinsey report on John Bull's private life (headline: 450 VERY FRANK MEN AND WOMEN). Last summer, when cameramen pursued Princess Margaret (see below) into an Italian grotto and peered into her bedroom, the Pic loudly protested this invasion of her privacy. Naturally, it had to run pictures to show how unprincipled the invasion had been...
...hastily scrawled two-word statement to the press, Train then announced that his splinter faction would found a new esoteric humor review embodying the most stimulating features of "Pic," the "National Geographic," "II Progress," and he program notes of the Boston Symphony...