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He was just 27 when he bought the Staten Island Advance for $98,000 in 1922. Since then, short (5 ft. 3 in.), stocky Samuel Irving Newhouse, 63, the son of a Russian immigrant, has strung together an empire of 13 newspapers. Among them: the Newark Star-Ledger, St. Louis...
Publisher Newhouse himself is pessimistic about his chances of getting the Sunpapers. "It's a profitable property-I'm afraid they're not going to sell," he admits. But he was optimistic about adding other links to his chain. "I plan to keep going," he says. "I...
But after the war, sticking to its conservative coverage and soberly written stories, the Times-Star began to lose ground to the Post, which combined flaring headlines and flamboyant crime stories with solid crusades for clean city government. In 1951 the Post passed the Times-Star in circulation (153,230...
Competing alone against two Scripps-Howard papers, the staid Times-Star resorted to promotion contests, bigger headlines and color pictures. The Post cannily counterattacked by becoming more conservative, toned down its headlines and crime coverage, concentrated more and more on worthy civic projects.
"No 'Centralization.' " The sale (at an undisclosed figure) means that solid Cincinnati will have to read Scripps-Howard. But Scripps-Howard President Jack Howard, 47, insists that the morning Enquirer (circ. 205,461) will be free to compete as it likes against the new afternoon Post and Times...