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...Newark (N.J.) Star-Ledger rolled an extra 50,000 Sunday copies and sold 20,000. Hearst's evening Manhattan paper, the Journal-American, claimed a gain of 75,000 daily. The New York Times got a 25,000 boost both daily and Sunday. But Vice President Ivan Veit said that the Times's serialization of the Eisenhower memoirs probably accounted for most of that. New York Herald Tribune President Walter Thayer reported a modest circulation rise, but decided not to give a figure. Said he of the refugees from the Mirror: "My guess is that 70% will evaporate...
...Both Veit and Thayer predicted that the departure of the Mirror will carry 500,000 New York newspaper buyers into oblivion. If so, it would be a part of a vanishing act that began in 1957. That year, after raising their price to a dime, the three afternoon dailies collectively lost a 333,000 paid readership -only 46,000 of which has come back. After the city's 114-day newspaper strike last winter, another 500,000 buyers disappeared for good. If prophecies about the Mirror prove true, the total loss will soar past...
Neither Easy nor Short. As they wonder where the readers went, most observers conjure up the figure of the commuter. Ivan Veit, business manager of the Times, subscribes to the widely shared view that what the papers lost was "multiple readers"-people who bought two or more papers daily, one for the ride to work and another for the trip home. Newsstand sales, off some 10%, suggest that Veit may be right. Francis M. Flynn, president and publisher of the Daily News, thinks that commuters have rediscovered homegrown substitutes: "I hear that people are reading suburban papers more and liking...
...Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies has announced the award of Atomic Energy Commission Special Fellowships in Industrial Hyglene to two graduate students who will study at Harvard next year. The two, Stanley L. Dryden, of Glendale, Calif., and Robert W. Veit, of San Luis Obispo, Calif., will pursue a course of study leading to the master of science degree...
...Veit Stoss (1445-1533) was born in Niirnberg, did much of his work in Poland, which likes to claim him as a national artist...