Word: star
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With the Star eclipsed, Seattle became another city without a balanced editorial diet. John and Anna Roosevelt Boettiger, the only other publishers to promise variety, had sold their weekly Home News, to concentrate on their struggling (circ. 8,300) daily Arizona Times in Phoenix...
Even with its dying breath, the once-vigorous, lately spineless Star told less than the whole truth. It had just been swallowed-but did not say so-by the affluent and conservative Seattle Times, which would now have the afternoon field all to itself. For the Times (circ. 176,000), the deal was a bargain: at the markdown price of $360,000 it got the Star's precious newsprint contract. It also nipped young David T. Stern's threat to buy the paper and restore the lusty liberal voice that its late founder, E. W. ("Lusty") Scripps, gave...
...West . . . "Tommy" Stern, backed by Father J. David Stern, had gone to -Seattle a month ago (TIME, July 21), all set to take the Star off the nervous hands of a baker's dozen of local businessmen stockholders. But after a close look at Publisher Howard Parish's records he backed away; they showed that the Star was losing over $700 a day. Stern had planned to take over the option of Sheldon Sackett, an over-extended Northwest press lord. On July 31 the option lapsed, but Stern kept on dickering...
...late Philadelphia Record, and George Chaplin, managing editor of the Camden Courier and Post until Stern Sr. sold them last winter. In his pocket, Tommy Stern had a ringing, first-day editorial. Then, a few hours before plane time, he got the bad news in a terse wire: the Star had already been sold...
Situations Wanted. Despondent Star staffers got the news in a terse bulletin-board message. The stockholders propose to hand out $75,000 in severance pay to some 200 among the 235 employees. The printing forces will be absorbed around town, but few Star newsmen can soundly hope to catch on with the Times or Hearst's morning Post-Intelligencer...