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...home town, the New York Herald Tribune survives only in the name of the city's new afternoon paper, the World Journal Tribune. Abroad, the Trib is very much alive. Last week the paper sported a new logotype...
...under the logotype, all was familiar, and the Trib's Jock Whitney was in Paris with his new cochairman, the Post's Kay Graham, to celebrate the combined operation. Their enthusiasm promised the international edition of the New York Times a fight to the death...
...Momentum. The 79-year-old Trib used to have the field practically to itself. It was a home away from home for expatriate journalists, who turned out consistently lively copy for resident Americans. It kept them well informed about the U.S., but it also managed to cover the rest of the world from a decidedly European viewpoint. And always it was interested in everything Parisian...
...Times, which had been printing a small edition in Amsterdam, moved to Paris and started a more ambitious international edition. The Trib, which had been breaking even, soon slipped into the red. But the Times's losses were still greater, and the two papers opened merger talks. Then the deal fell through, and the competition picked up new momentum...
...Trib's new editor is Murray Weiss, onetime managing editor of the paper in New York. With a circulation of 60,000, one-third better than the Times's 45,000, Weiss plans no radical changes. The Trib will continue to use the graceful, award-winning makeup that was discarded by the New York edition five years ago. It has a strong group of columnists, and it also has the Los Angeles Times-Washington Post news service at its disposal. That often means bylined, front-page stories on major events a day ahead of the Times. Weiss...