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Newhouse is a publisher who has devoted himself less to the profession of journalism than to the buying of newspapers as business properties. Beginning with the Staten Island (N.Y.) Advance in 1922, he has spent 38 years and $50 million building an empire of 14 papers with a circulation totaling...
¶ The 19 editors of the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain announced their unanimous blessing of Lyndon Johnson as "the ablest and strongest" candidate for the Democratic nomination, reserved decision on a Republican choice "until a later day when, and if, a contest develops." The ultraconservative Manchester (N.H.) Union Leader also...
While he lived, William Randolph Hearst was a hang-the-cost sort of press lord, who treasured his newspapers as though they were rare and lovely gems. But after his death in 1951, control of his empire passed to a businessmen's trusteeship far more interested in profits than...
So, last week, reported United Press International in a dispatch datelined Seoul. But to one American newsman, Scripps-Howard Correspondent Jim G. Lucas, 45, the words must have had an odd ring. For the same demonstrators who were so kind to other foreign reporters had chased Lucas clean out of...
Died. Lowell Mellett, 76, longtime Scripps-Howard editor and executive, who turned to New Deal politics, headed President Roosevelt's National Emergency Council in 1937-38 and the Office of Government Reports in 1939-42, was one of F.D.R.'s so-called "secret six" braintrusters from 1940 to...