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...present Journal-Telegram staffs will be kept. The paper will be printed on the Telegram's 35-year-old presses, which are only slightly less obsolete than the Journal's. The polyglot Sunday Tribune-Journal (or whatever its name is to be) will be printed on both Trib and Journal presses...
...York, says Herald Tribune President Walter Thayer, "three papers are losing a great deal of money." He means the Trib, Telegram and Journal. A combination of television, strong suburban dailies and crippling strikes has drained those papers of readers and advertisers. Circulation of the WorldTelegram has dropped from 448,828 in 1960 to 389,291 today; in the same period, Journal-American circulation slipped from 618,802 to 535,310. The Sunday Trib (circ. 360,876), though it has been praised for its sprightliness, has been unable to make much headway against the powerful Sunday Times, with its impressive circulation...
While they wait for news of their fate, staffers at all three papers are trying to be stoics. After ten years of hearing of dire change at their paper, Trib employees are perhaps the least ruffled. "As long as we have Whitney's money, we're all right," says one Trib man. Even at the Telegram, where a reporter was recently bawled out for charging 800 on his expense account for 600 worth of subway trips, some reporters are beginning to roll with the rumors. "I tend to let Zen take care of it," said a young Telegram...
...take her back to Istanbul. TV and radio broke out with a rash of spot commercials selling Fanny, Fanny, Fanny. Logan himself directed scenes from the play that were presented on The Ed Sullivan Show. And for the first time in history, the Times and Trib carried full-page theater ads -for Fanny...
...attack has been conducted at ev ery turn with a grand sense of theater. Sometimes he has needled: he querulously complained that Playwright Jean Kerr, wife of the Trib's Walter Kerr, kept nudging her husband while the performance was going on-the implication being that Walter's reviews reflected Jean's opinions. Sometimes, without bothering to explain the joke, he has secretly decorated his enemies with insulting little signs. Only last week, after years of resenting The New Yorker magazine's theater reviews, he inserted an advertisement in which the first let ters of each line form an acrostic...