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TIME, Aug. 1 reports the Honolulu Star-Bulletin has a "growing circulation lead over the morning Advertiser...
George Chaplin took over as Advertiser editor in December 1958. At that time Advertiser circulation was 46,500 v. the Star-Bulletin...
Islanders still talk about Riley Allen's exploit on that Sunday 19 years ago. In 48 years on the Star-Bulletin, he has given them plenty to remember. A lifelong Republican and small-d Democrat. Allen showed his colors privately and in print at every opportunity. In 1912, two years after his arrival in Honolulu from the sports department of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, he sparked the crusade that culminated last year in Hawaiian statehood. He backed legislation-opposed by the islands' powerful sugar and pineapple interests-that opened the public schools to children of imported Oriental laborers...
...with the News. Half a century of energetic Allen direction has clearly established the evening Star-Bulletin as the conservatively Republican voice of conservatively Republican Hawaii. In a city that rises early and does not get around to the news until the sun slides over the Waianae Range, it has a comfortable, growing circulation lead over the morning Advertiser-103,180 to 59,679. The Advertiser's banner red headlines and high feature count are not likely to pull it abreast of the paper that carries 50% more columns of news each day, keeps 69 men in the newsroom...
Last week, at 76, Editor Allen left the Star-Bulletin's newsroom for good. The 1954 death of Joseph R. Farrington, son of the paper's founder and longtime Hawaii delegate to the U.S. Congress, generated a court fight for control between Farrington's widow Betty and his sister, wife of General Edmond H. Leavey (ret.), ex-president of the International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. Betty Farrington won a 2-1 majority, but lost the services of her editor and friend. In appointing Editor Allen as a trustee of the Farrington estate, the court stipulated that Allen would...