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Like most conglomerates, Media General, Inc. has been concentrating on acquisitions. It has picked up the Newark Evening News and four smaller papers to add to its original pair in Richmond. Now it is taking a new tack, creating rather than buying a paper. Crammed with charts and up-to-the-minute analyses of 3,250 stocks, the 72 pages of Media General Financial Daily consist almost entirely of figures. They amount to a sort of stock-market racing form. The price: a dollar...
...father died. He set type, swept floors, and ran errands for the Asheville (N.C.) Weekly Advocate, working 60 hours a week for $12. In his spare time, Donnahoe studied law at home, and passed the North Carolina bar exams at 21 without a formal legal education. After moving to Richmond, he served as publicity and research director for the Chamber of Commerce there, studied the science of statistics in off hours, and soon became so expert that he was invited to lecture on the subject at the University of Richmond...
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Playwrights in Residence The Virginia State Penitentiary squats smack in the middle of Richmond, a graying wad of concrete plopped down in a dreary commercial neighborhood of decaying buildings. It is a maximum-security prison that houses 1,200 inmates whose offenses run from rape and robbery right up to multiple murders. Improbably, it also houses one of the country's fastest-growing and most enthusiastic drama schools...
...There the prisoners have come up with a desperately passionate full-length play, Later, Jason, written and twice performed inside the penitentiary by inmates. It has also been performed at two prison farms, and this week WCVE-TV, the public-television station in Richmond, aired the TV version using the original prison cast...