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Gaining circulation during the Times's absence were the other "quality" national newspapers: the Daily Telegraph (up 89,000, to 1.5 million), the Guardian (up 103,000, to 415,000) and the Sunday...
...inventions came after thousands of experiments that failed but taught him something. The only device that worked on the first try was the phonograph. It was a piece of serendipity; Edison had been trying to invent a device that would permit telephone messages to be sent over telegraph lines, and was astonished to discover that the apparatus could record his own voice. Partly because the phonograph came so easily, he distrusted it enough to fail to capitalize on its moneymaking potential. (Another reason was that he had poor hearing and no real appreciation of music, and did not realize what...
...summer of 1907, Edward Wyllis Scripps, the eccentric Ohio newspaper entrepreneur, strung together a ragtag assortment of reporters, telegraph operators and rewrite men to form the United Press. Though the fledgling wire service had just $500 in working capital, Scripps gave it a difficult mission: take on the mighty Associated Press, a cooperative owned by its client newspapers and established more than half a century earlier. By late summer U P. had miraculously captured 369 U.S. papers as clients, and it looked as if Scripps' folly might soon overtake A.P. as the nation's premier wire service...
...debts. He left at least 97 stunned creditors. Among them: the Petersen Galleries of Beverly Hills, whose claim of a $7 million loss was the single largest; art dealers in places as far-flung as San Francisco, Cincinnati and Signal Mountain, Tenn.; the Internal Revenue Service and Western Union Telegraph Co. Straw allegedly sold paintings that he did not own -and some that did not even exist. He staved off creditors with partial payments and bouncing checks. The case, now being investigated by the FBI, is one of the most sensational scandals ever to hit the secretive world...
...immediate focus of U.S. ire is Japan's reluctance to open up enough of its government contracts to foreign bidders. Specifically, the U.S. wants to be allowed to bid on high-technology items like computers and switching equipment bought by the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Co. (NTT). But NTT vigorously opposes foreign bidding because the company has worked closely with several Japanese suppliers in developing its computer technology, which it protects like a mother bear guarding her cubs. Yet such technology is precisely where the U.S. has an edge, and could expand in what will be a growing industry...