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Readers of West Virginia's Clarksburg evening Telegram and its sister morning paper, the Exponent (combined circ. 37,000), gawked last week at a new contest. On the front page appeared a "Secret Witness" form urging readers to fill in the blanks. It read: "I think the following person or persons should be suspected of the murder [of Milton J. Cohen, 59-year-old co-owner of the city's most fashionable women's shop] : Name __________. Address ___________, Or full description _________. For following reasons _________________." The form made clear that "in case of duplicate information, the letter bearing...
...sensibly pointed out that their oil is shipped in pipelines and would not be cut off. Warned former Canadian External Affairs Chief Lester B. Pearson: "Any further restrictions on Canadian imports into the U.S. would make further defense cooperation more difficult." The Canadian press seconded him. The conservative Toronto Telegram's Washington Correspondent James M. Minifie snapped: "Are safety-pin assembly lines closing down? Jack up the protection. Who cares about friends...
Also included in the defendants are The New York World Telegram and Sun; its editor, Roy W. Howard; Houghton Mifflin Company, publishers of Schlesinger's book; Kenneth E. Tromley, author of "The Life and Times of a Happy Liberal;" and his publishers, Harper and Brothers...
...looking for other money-losing dailies to buy and merge-and soon won fame as the busiest newspaper hyphenator in upstate New York. From Rochester, where he merged the Union & Advertiser with the Times, he went on to combine Utica's Herald-Dispatch and Observer, Elmira's Telegram and Advertiser, Ithaca's News and Journal. He fought Hearst in Rochester (where W.R.H. spent $8,000,000 in a hopeless stab at putting F.E.G. out of business), and was himself driven to the ropes in Brooklyn, where he bought the old Eagle in 1929 and shucked...
...interleague cooperation collapsed. Everything fell apart into familiar argument when the minors got wind of a big-league deal for network television of Sunday games. Screaming that Sunday is their only payday, that their fans would desert them to watch big-league ball, minor-league leaders sent a hasty telegram to Representative Emanuel Celler. Its gist: please re-open congressional hearings on the majors' baseball monopoly...