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When the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain threatened two years ago to fold its longtime flagship Cleveland Press, at which E.W. Scripps launched his empire in 1878, Joseph E. Cole, 67, a Democratic Party activist and millionaire merchant, stepped in. Cole insisted that a local owner could better compete with the...
During the past decade, while United Press International reporters, photographers and editors have aggressively battled their rivals at the Associated Press, U.P.I, itself has been battling for survival. Since 1975 the news service has had reported pretax losses of $32 million. Last year it was put up for sale by...
The new owners say they are intent on accelerating U.P.I.'s transition to satellite delivery of the news, improving its services, and vigorously competing with the A.P. Said Ruhe: "We feel that the greatest opportunities for growth lie in the new technologies." The Scripps company had already invested $10.5...
Descending to depths of 8,500 ft., the Alvin has found not only more creatures of the Galápagos variety, such as giant worms, but other oddities: several species of snails, worms, clams and a jellyfish. Some are so novel that they defy the taxonomic abilities of the biologists...
In Cleveland a local millionaire named Joseph E. Cole stepped in a year ago to rescue the afternoon Press (circ. 305,000), which had been losing $6 million a year for its previous owner, the Scripps-Howard chain. Cole says a new design and color pictures have boosted circulation. But...