Word: sales
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Opposing a possible sale of the city's Corporal Burns playground to the University, he assailed the "gigantic land grab in Cambridge" and proposed a bill for the state legislature that would prevent Harvard from "grabbing" any more taxable land...
...King of Kings will undoubtedly be filling Hollywood's collection plates for months to come. Scheduled for reserved-seat. pre-Christmas release at fancy prices ($1.50-$3.50 on Broadway), the film will soon be playing in 26 cities from Los Angeles to Rome, has rung up an advance sale of about $600,000-bigger than...
...newsstands. It was sold out almost as soon as it appeared. For two shillings (28?) a copy, Britons got their first taste of Topic, a 64-page, photogravured weekly newsmagazine edited by a Fleet Street veteran and underwritten by half a dozen millionaires.* But while the fine first-issue sale (150,000) was an auspicious sign, Topic may discover that to make a go of it in Britain, even six millionaires are not enough...
Topic's board is convinced that the magazine can break even with a newsstand sale of 65,000 and show a profit at 90,000. It must do so against competition of the sternest sort. The newcomer must buck England's big national Sunday press-eight papers, combined circulation 24 million-some of which, unlike Sunday papers in the U.S., serve many of the functions of a weekly newsmagazine. Topic's own announcements accompanying the first issue called the venture "Britain's biggest publishing gamble" since World War II. In view of the national character...
...largely for the Knights of Columbus, a fraternal order for Catholic laity. C.D. is printed in five languages and ten international editions (for Britain and Ireland, Belgium, The Netherlands, India, Italy, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France and the Philippines), and it is the only Catholic publication with a national newsstand sale (15,000 a month). C.D. is the most successful magazine of the largest periodical publisher in the U.S.: the Roman Catholic Church (535 newspapers and magazines, with a total paid circulation...