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Last week, George McCullagh, now 43 and cocky as ever, closed another newspaper deal. For $3,610,000, he bought the 72-year-old Toronto Evening Telegram.* That gave him control of two of the three big daily newspapers in Canada's second city, with a total circulation...
...Power. In the grimy Telegram offices on Melinda Street, there was no joy as the staff turned out an early afternoon edition headed McCULLAGH BUYS TELY (changed in a later edition to TELY REMAINS INDEPENDENT). Although McCullagh said that there would be no immediate wholesale firings, his ownership of both the Globe & Mail and the Telegram would cut the field for any ex-staffers to one paper, the Star...
...With the Telegram under McCullagh, some of Toronto's politicians were as shaky as the Tely's employees about their future. When he first took charge of the Globe & Mail, McCullagh supported the Liberal Party, though he often needled the government. The final break came in World War II over reinforcements for Canadian troops abroad. Ever since, McCullagh has been plugging the Progressive Conservative line on his editorial page, has become a power in Tory circles. Ownership of the staunchly Tory Telegram makes him still more important in the party. Said one worried Tory: "It's going...
Able Newspaperman McCullagh decided to get tough first with Toronto's Liberal Star (circ. 369,276), longtime rival of the Telegram, and Canada's biggest newspaper. The Star charged that the Telegram had lost its independence and that McCullagh was a front man "for outside influence and ownership." McCullagh snapped that the Telegram deal was his own. "That fellow Hindmarsh [Harry Comfort Hindmarsh, Star president]," he roared, ". . . is so ugly that if he ever bit himself he'd get hydrophobia...
Shapley stated that a telegram from the South African station credited M.J. Bester with making the discovery According to the cablegram from J. S. Paraskevopoulos, superintendent of the Observatory location of the new comet is seven hours, 37 minutes and its declination is 75 degrees south. Its magnitude is 7.5 making it visible through a telescope...