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...proposed postal increase," complained New Yorker Publisher David Michaels, "would go far beyond what the magazine business can support." Richard Deems, Hearst Magazines president, said that his company was "terribly disturbed." John J. McCarthy, a vice president of Dow Jones & Co. (the Wall Street Journal), viewed the figures as "horrendous...
These and other protests came last week as magazines and newspapers fought another round with the U.S. Postal Service over a scheduled rise in second-class mail rates. It was the publishers' turn to lodge "exceptions" to a hearing examiner's report that had upheld the Postal Service proposals. The industry views the increase of some 150% over five years as ruinous (TIME, Jan. 10) and the Magazine Publishers Association is arguing for a phased increase of 50% over five years...
Some Society. At 16, after forging postal money orders, he was sent to a series of mainland U.S. prisons, where he alternated between fighting and arguing. "I've always been militant. I was brought up on the teachings of Marcus Garvey." Shipped to a federal prison in Tallahassee, Fla. ("Wow, did I.run into some racism down there!"), he began to organize the inmates. The result was a "miniriot" and a transfer to Lewisburg, Pa. "I've got to praise the system there," he says. "I was able to get a lot of reading done." Blyden's discoveries...
Last week legal authorities in the U.S. and Switzerland were rapidly working to unravel the mysteries surrounding Irving's supposed "autobiography" of Howard Hughes. U.S. postal investigators were checking hotel records in Florida and other places to determine whether Irving ever met Hughes, as he claims, for more than 100 hours of talk. Other federal men pursued a lead that Irving may have needed money to pay off loan sharks of the Mafia family of Carlo Gambino. Meantime the Internal Revenue Service signed tax liens against all of Irving's 1971 earnings, including the $650,000 in publisher...
...autobiography in three issues this month.* They also had an interest all their own, since Helga had employed a forged Swiss passport in opening the Zurich account. On the other side of the Atlantic, there was also official interest: New York County District Attorney Frank Hogan, the U.S. Postal Service and the Justice Department had launched investigations into what was beginning to appear to be a very complicated piece of fraud...