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All three were once run by Entrepre neur William L. Moody Jr., who before his death in 1954 had built up a $400 million empire in banking, insurance, real estate, cotton, oil, hotels and ranching. "My father told me never to dispose of these papers,'' said Mrs. Mary...
In the days before newsmagazines and TV began reporting and interpreting the news to the whole country, Scripps-Howard spent more of their time and space crusading and explaining national issues to their readers. Today they have followed the general newspaper trend and become more local, immersing themselves in parochial...
At Least Elastic. As if conscious of the pitfalls of comfortable old age, Scripps-Howard has in recent months chopped some of its most seasoned timber. Patriarchal Roy Howard has gradually stripped himself of all of his titles but chairman of the executive committee, and several aging Scripps-Howard editors...
It is unlikely that such injections of relatively young blood will materially change an operation that has worked well since E. W. Scripps established the Penny Press (later the Cleveland Press) on a borrowed $10,000 in 1878. Good and bad, fat and lean, solvent and insolvent, the Scripps-Howard...
* An arrangement, born of economic necessity, that Scripps-Howard not only endorses but invented. The first U.S. daily to operate jointly with the opposition was the Albuquerque Tribune, a Scripps-Howard paper. Eight of the chain's 18 papers now operate jointly, either with sister or competitive papers.