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The Louisiana purchase not only set a record but hoisted Sam Newhouse to the top of the heap. With 19 dailies having a combined daily and Sunday circulation of 5,700,000, he now owns, in whole or part, more newspapers than anyone else in the U.S.; he has one...
If the late great Ernest Hemingway was a man of achievement in search of a public character to match, Robert Ruark is a public character still in search of the achievement that can justify it. After his initial success as a Scripps-Howard columnist, Ruark moved to Spain, found himself...
For purely commercial reasons, the highly competitive Scripps-Howard and Hearst newspaper chains have been nursing an uneasy West Coast alliance since
1959. That year in San Francisco, Hearst's money-losing evening paper, the Call-Bulletin (circ. 140,207), merged with Scripps-Howard's equally unprofitable evening paper, the News (101,758). Last week, for purely commercial reasons, the uncomfortable alliance ended in amicable divorce. For some $500,000...
Cut-Rate Coup. From the very beginning, nothing about the merger had made much sense. Only hope of survival brought the two chains together, in the outside chance that the weld-awkwardly dubbed the News-Call Bulletin-might cure a combined deficit approaching $2,000,000 a year. What Hearst...