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Although Don José has been dead for 30 years, the newspaper he founded 73 years ago has not changed much. La Prensa is THE Argentine newspaper, is one of the world's ten greatest papers...
Polish, Curiosity, Comics. A cross between the London Times and James Gordon Bennett's old New York Herald, La Prensa is unlike any other newspaper anywhere. In its fine old building the rooms are lofty and spiced with the odor of wax polish, long accumulated. Liveried flunkies pass memoranda and letters from floor to floor on an old pulley and string contraption. But high-speed hydraulic tubes whip copy one mile from the editorial room to one of the world's most modern printing plants-more than adequate to turn out La Prensa's 280,000 daily...
Argentines are minutely curious about the world. Although newsprint (from the U.S.) is scarce, La Prensa usually carries 32 columns of foreign news-more than any other paper in the world. Four years ago most was European-today New York or Washington has as many datelines as London...
...Prensa's front page is solid (save for a small box for important headlines) with classified ads. So, usually, are the following six pages-one reason the paper nets a million dollars or more annually. Lately La Prensa has made some concessions to modernity: it now carries two comic strips, occasional news pictures...
Deliveries, Duels, Discussions. La Prensa will not deliver the paper to a politician's office; he must have it sent to his home. It will not call for advertising copy. No local staffman has ever had a byline...