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...JEAN PAUL II: THE WORLD APPALLED read the 1½-in. headline in Paris' daily Le Figaro. In Johannesburg, an afternoon Star editorial bemoaned the violence "that seems to pervade the whole world." The New York Times devoted its first seven pages to the story and upped its pressrun by 180,000, to 1.16 million. The Los Angeles Times hit the streets two hours earlier than usual with a rare extra edition; the Washington Star printed two extra editions within hours of the shooting. In Vatican City, staffers at L'Osservatore Romano, the church daily, worked through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: The Pope's Been Shot! | 5/25/1981 | See Source »

When Sir James Goldsmith launched his weekly newsmagazine Now! 19 months ago, he gave it a rousing sendoff. The pugnacious French-British entrepreneur spent more than $ 1 million on promotion, and the initial pressrun of 416,000 copies was a sellout. With the London Sunday Times and its glossy magazine shut down by a labor dispute, upscale advertisers flocked to the new publication. Start-up costs were high ($5.4 million), but the brash publisher was undeterred. Said Sir James: "If it has the feeling of life in it, I will keep it going, even with losses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Suddenly, Now! Is Never | 5/11/1981 | See Source »

...group of conservative investors led by Leonard Saffir, 47, a longtime aide to former Senator James Buckley, intends to begin publishing what would be New York City's first new major daily in more than a decade. The paper will have a strikingly modern design, an initial pressrun of 200,000 and, perhaps, a hauntingly familiar name: the Trib...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Tribulations | 10/3/1977 | See Source »

...will and some of its features, President Francis M. Flynn played it cautious. As Manhattan's other morning tabloid, the News was the place for Mirror readers to land. But how many actually made the trip remained a secret, although the day the Mirror died, Flynn announced a pressrun increase of 400,000 copies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newspapers: Vanishing Act | 11/1/1963 | See Source »

...mind: "No matter how we try to escape, to lose ourselves in restless seeking, we cannot separate ourselves from our divine source. There is no substitute for God." Author Cronin's publishers, probably estimating correctly the appeal that these autobiographical tales will have, ordered a huge first-publication pressrun of 75,000 copies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Proud Soul v. Humble Soul | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

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