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...great newsstand in the sky, few have been so deeply mourned as New York's old Herald Tribune. Founded as the Tribune in 1841 by Horace Greeley, married in 1924 to the popular Herald, and killed in a 1966 shootout in the city's competitive marketplace, the Trib was for decades palpitating proof that a paper could be both serious...
...longtime aide to former Senator James Buckley, intends to begin publishing what would be New York City's first new major daily in more than a decade. The paper will have a strikingly modern design, an initial pressrun of 200,000 and, perhaps, a hauntingly familiar name: the Trib...
Perhaps, because the old Trib did not go gently into that good nightside. The paper's overseas edition, the International Herald Tribune (circ. 118,000), is still published in Paris by IHT Corp., a joint venture of the New York Times, Washington Post and Whitney Communications, the old Trib's last owner. Accordingly, IHT Corp. is suing the owners of the new Trib for trademark infringement. The Trib, in turn, has sued IHT and the Times for harassment and antitrust violations, asking $7.5 million in treble damages. Saffir accuses IHT of trying to prevent his paper from appearing...
...broken through and gathered a following. Among them: George Will and David Broder of the Washington Post Writers Group; Ellen Goodman, whose hip and compassionate Boston Globe commentary is also distributed by the Post Group; Jeff MacNelly, the Pulitzer-winning editorial cartoonist who next week will launch with the Trib-News syndicate a comic strip about a bird who edits a newspaper; New York News Funnyman Gerald Nachman (TIME, Aug. 23,1976); and, most recently, Jack Germond and Jules Witcover, a pair of Washington veterans whose six-month-old investigative column promises to match Jack Anderson scoop for scoop...
...Wisconsin or Michigan, the gasoline bills are enormous. Mrs. Gibson averages $55 a month for her 1976 Chevrolet Chevelle sedan, which gets 16 miles to the gallon. Her husband spends double that for his 12 m.p.g. Mercedes, which he uses for commuting. John Schmeltzer, editor of the local Suburban Trib, believes that car-buying, if not car-driving, habits are slowly changing. Says he: "People have come down from the huge Cadillacs to Buicks or Oldsmobiles, from a Marquis Brougham to just a Marquis...