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...merged. The union welds weak links of two big newspaper chains: Hearst's Call-Bulletin (circ. 145,070) and Scripps-Howard's News (circ. 98,808). Since each paper had been losing an estimated $1,000,000 a year, the merger was aptly characterized by a Hearst staffer. "Imagine," he said, "being kicked to death by a dead horse...
...bitterness intensified, the Beacon backers accused the Eagle of injecting anti-Semitic lines in its news columns (the Levands are Jewish), while Eagle staffers spread rumors that the Beacon was getting ads by threatening to publish photographs of solid citizens surprised by Beacon photographers in compromising situations. The Eagle wrote balefully of "the threat of Levand influence," went out of its way to talk about "Max Levand of the Wichita Beacon, who owes the Government nearly $10,000 in taxes." When Marcellus Murdock's daughter went East and married a Jew, the Eagle said nothing, but the Beacon told...
...desperate military attache in Russia's Burmese embassy. Colonel Mikhail I. Stryguine, tried to leap to freedom from his hospital window, was nabbed by Russian goons, spirited off to Rangoon airport, and flown away in a Communist plane (TIME, May 18). Last week another Russian embassy staffer there wanted out. This time he made...
...formal schooling (fifth to eighth grade in Hamilton, Ont. ), Mary is a skillful artist and writer, a competent self-taught photographer and typist who produced most of the gay line drawings that decorate the magazine, contributed most of the photographs, wrote several of the articles. The only other Inuktitut staffer is Abraham Okpik, 30, a stocky hunter from Aklavik...
After his off-the-record chat with State Representative Steve Dolley one day last week, Reporter Paul Crooke of North Carolina's daily Gastonia Gazette (circ. 20,491) tossed a memo on the crowded desk of Managing Editor Bob Hallman. Gist of the memo: Dolley, a onetime Gazette staffer, was only pleasing officials of nearby Bessemer City when he introduced a bill to reorganize their courts, had "no desire that the bill pass," was convinced that "it has no chance whatever"-and wanted the Gazette to kill any stories about it. Somehow, in the deadline shuffle, the memo...