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...Little A.P. For TV Guide, the problem is not circulation, but how to print a national magazine with local news in 36 different areas. But President Walter Annenberg, 47, whose Triangle Publications, Inc. also publishes the Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily Racing Form, the New York Morning Telegraph, Seventeen, Official Detective Stories (TIME, July 20, 1953), is no stranger to regional publishing. At one time he turned out eight regional editions of the Daily Racing Form; until the Wartime paper shortage killed it, he printed four regional editions of Radio Guide. In 1953 he decided he could turn out a national-local...
During the past 15 years, Correspondent Goodman, now 38, has interviewed just about all the ranking stars of the film world. He learned about the picture business from inside out, first as a publicity man for Warner Bros., then as a movie columnist for the New York Morning Telegraph and for the Los Angeles Daily News. Four years ago, Goodman came to New York to write movie reviews for TIME. Two years later, he returned to his old Hollywood beat...
After gold and silver were discovered in California, Telegraph Tycoon J.W. Mackay brought in three tons of silver from the Comstock lode and had Tiffany's make it into 1,000 pieces of table silver. One day President Lincoln dropped in to pick up a strand of pearls for the First Lady. Diamond Jim Brady earned his nickname with Tiffany diamonds, and an admirer of Sarah Bernhardt ordered for her a bicycle set with diamonds and rubies. Tiffany's even made horseshoes for the thoroughbreds of Tobacco Millionaire P. Lorillard. Steelmaker Charles Schwab once strolled into Tiffany...
...daily for every 1,000 population), readers have a choice ranging from the no headlines of the uncompromising Times to the screaming headlines of the irrepressible Laborite Daily Mirror, biggest daily in the world (circ. 4,725,122). The well-written Manchester Guardian (circ. 156,154) and the Daily Telegraph (circ. 1,048,776) are slowly picking up readers, but the force of their voices is muffled by the nation's popular dailies, which provide the bulk of the news that Britain reads...
Explains one U.S. newsman, a longtime London correspondent: "In Britain there are still two classes: the educated and the uneducated. The educated present Britain's face to the world as a nation of people who are readers of the Times, Telegraph and Guardian. The uneducated present no face to the world because their faces are buried in the Mirror, Sketch, Herald, and all the other popular papers...