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Last week, on the eve of the debut of his Sunday Times, Publisher Thomason began to learn how the Tribune and "Herex" (both priced at 10?) propose to protect themselves against the 5? tabloid. Licensed newsstands in Chicago all are built with two display shelves. Copies of the Tribune are stacked in two piles on the upper shelf; the Herex on the lower. No newsstand owner would dare disturb that arrangement without permission of either paper. All too familiar with the bloody history of Chicago's oldtime circulation wars, Publisher Thomason induced the Commissioner of Public Works to call...
...scanty. The Times, although it was on the verge of breaking even a year ago, last year lost $137,000 of which $123,000 was charged to Saturday editions. With an anticipated Sunday circulation of 400,000 and capacity volume pages of advertising in the first issue, Publisher Thomason looks for fat returns. (Sunday circulations: Tribune 972,414, Herex...
Publisher Thomason resigned from the Tribune five years ago to go to Florida for the sake of his paralytic wife. In Tampa he and John Stewart Bryan, publisher of the Richmond, Va. News Leader, bought the Tribune. Shortly afterward Mr. Thomason returned to Chicago to buy the doddering Journal. He tried to make it a conservative evening paper like the New York Sun, failed, sold it to the Daily News but kept the Associated Press franchise by bringing out 500 copies daily of a sheetlet called the Commercial Chronicle. (Last week he had forgotten its name.) Around...
...Times first appeared Sept. 3, 1929, the day when the Dow Jones stock average reached its all-time high. Its first day circulation, 263,000, was the highest it ever had. Publisher Thomason based his advertising rates on an expected circulation of about 100,000, has never been able to get them adjusted to his actual circulation which is now about 200,000. Big stockholders besides Publisher Thomason include Partner Bryan, Promoter George Fulmer Getz, Publisher Henry Haven Windsor Jr. of Popular Mechanics...
...small, intensely loyal staff Publisher Thomason is "Uncle Emory." Female secretaries in the American Newspaper Publishers' Association say "he is the nicest president we ever had." A golf enthusiast, he once played 136 holes in a day, dined immediately afterward and then lost consciousness. He enjoys a crap game but would rather play chess, always carries a pocket-size chess board when he travels. With only a few minutes to catch a train to New York for a flying trip one day he made his business manager accompany him, without baggage, so he could have a chess opponent...