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...which undertake to sign up members of the congregation at $1 a year (v. $2 for individual mail subscribers), thus can sell advertising space (1956 ad revenue: $402,000) on the basis of audited circulation. The magazine is put out by a ten-man lay staff under onetime Holiday Staffer Robert J. Cadigan, aims at general family readership with sharp picture layouts and easy-to-take text pieces...
While many businessmen will talk willingly with the rare newspaperman who comes around, they know they do not have to: most business sections will uncritically print all the company handouts that fit (sometimes even tacking on a staffer's byline). Says an Atlanta businessman of his home-town papers: "They print our handouts like gospel. We could send them a monstrous lie, and they'd print it without question...
...Irving Ives, but "Mr. Hoffa's troubles are far from ended." Ahead of Jimmy loom sessions with the McClellan committee, plus a federal trial on charges of having illegal recording devices attached to telephones in his Detroit headquarters. After Hoffa's acquittal last week, a gloomy committee staffer ventured that a forthcoming investigation of teamster links with New York labor racketeers might lead to new charges against Jimmy. "But don't bet on it," the staffer warned. "Don't ever bet on anything again...
That left three more possibilities: 1) Fred A. Seaton, Nebraska newspaper publisher, onetime Assistant Secretary of Defense (under Wilson), interim Senator, later White House staffer and now Secretary of the Interior; 2) Navy-minded Wilfred J. McNeil (a rear admiral in the Reserve), comptroller of the Defense Department in both the Truman and Eisenhower Administrations, who says modestly that he thinks that a big industrialist' should get the job; 3) air-and missile-minded Donald A. Quarles, onetime Bell Laboratories executive, later Secretary of the Air Force, now Deputy Secretary of Defense, a scientist and methodical thinker...
...retaliate by signing all their hotel meal checks with Mickel's name; Mickel was barely able to leave town. A sardonic example of U.P. tightfistedness was an exchange one day between Atlanta, the U.P.'s southern division relay point, and Raleigh, N.C., where a staffer was simultaneously punching copy on two teleprinters. When Atlanta complained that the copy was moving too slowly, Raleigh replied: HE ONLY HAS TWO HANDS. Came Atlanta's message: FIRE THE CRIPPLED BASTARD. (The U.P. has also a generous side to staffers, but compassion-as most editors and newspaper readers agree-makes dull...