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Last week Canadian-born Thomson crossed the ocean again for the biggest newspaper deal of his brief but spectacular career. For about $3,000,000, he bought control of Scotland's small but influential 136-year-old morning Scotsman (circ. 55,000) and its sister papers, the Edinburgh Evening Dispatch (71,000) and the Weekly Scotsman (66,000). In taking control of the papers from old Scottish family ownership, Thomson gets a staff of 800, a 13-story Renaissance-style building that cost $2,400,000 in 1904, and the prestige of a pioneer publishing company. On the Scotsman...
...Scotland, where his parents were born, Thomson has bigger ideas. Although he has no plans to change the staff or the policies (Tory) of his three new papers, the "fact that we intend to follow the same editorial policy doesn't preclude certain changes. First we have to work with the paper and learn what it needs. But some changes would be obvious to American newspaper operators, front-page ads, for example, and column widths. Maybe there's good reason in Scotland for front-page ads; we'll have...
Fabian of the Yard, by Robert Fabian. A brilliant former Scotland Yardman tells about his most interesting cases (TIME...
...Master of Ballantrae. Wielding his claymore, Errol Flynn hacks his way from Scotland to the New World in a rousing version of Robert Louis Stevenson's 18th century thriller (TIME...
Fabian of the Yard, by Robert Fabian. A brilliant former Scotland Yardman tells about his most interesting cases (TIME...