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...York Times in ad linage, and this year stands fourth-among the nation's papers. Its circulation in Washington runs second to McCormick's Times-Herald, but the Times-Herald has been slipping while the Star has been gaining. Its staff is as secure as the paper. Starmen like to boast that no one is ever fired or laid off "except for very grave reasons." The paper's front-page trademark feature for years was the fussy, inoffensive cartooning of the late Pulitzer-Prizewinning Clifford K. Berryman, and now it is the work...
...Star is owned by more than 150 Starmen, who in 1926 borrowed heavily to buy it from Nelson's estate. Some of them draw up to $50,000 a year in dividends. Roy Roberts' stock is estimated at close to $1,000,000; his salary...
...deadline, gave Delta citizens an eye-opener of a banner headline: Two GREENWOOD MEN JAILED ON MURDER CHARGE. It was the first news the U.S. had of a suppressed lynching-and of the Southern prosecutors willing to jail whites for it. As new clients of the United Press, the Starmen passed their exclusive along to U.P., gave it a 24-hour beat on the lynching story of the week...
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