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...True. Hume hurried in to show the letter to Managing Editor James Russell Wiggins. They decided to send it back to the White House with a mild reply. But word of the letter spread, and the next afternoon it turned up on Page One of the tabloid Washington News...
...Thanksgiving Eve, the staff of Alicia Patterson's scrappy, prosperous (circ. 130,000) Long Island tabloid, Newsday, was well scattered, and the plant at Garden City was shut down. The paper planned to stay closed over the holiday. Then Reporter Bob Hollingsworth, who had stopped in a bar for a drink on his way home, caught a radio news bulletin. There had been a disastrous wreck on the Long Island Rail Road (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Hollingsworth tried frantically to locate Managing Editor Alan Hathway by phone, made four calls before he ran him down having dinner in a Chinese...
After sinking an estimated $25 million into his newspaper ventures, Marshall Field III had been loosening his grip on the editorial direction of his surviving daily, the tabloid Chicago Sun-Times (circ. over 610,000 daily). Last fall, though he kept the title of publisher, Field gave 34-year-old Marshall Field Jr. a lift up the ladder; he gave him day-to-day command of the news room to be shared with 50-year-old Managing Editor Milburn ("Pete") Akers (TIME, Nov. 14). This week, the elder Field made the transfer of power complete. He gave up his title...
What started the fireworks in the Pacific Southwest Tennis Championships last week was a howling headline in the tabloid Los Angeles Mirror: "LARSEN STUPID, LUCKY"-SCHROEDER. All week long, spectators hoped for a Schroeder-Larsen match. They got it in the semifinal round...
...tabloid had taken in $1,081,458, chiefly from circulation at 10? a copy, and had spent $1,595,570. Net loss for the first year: $514,112. Although the Compass has a tiny (25) editorial staff compared to other New York dailies, close to half the expenses were on the editorial side for reporters, wire services, cable tolls, etc. Advertising income, largely from amusement ads,, was only...