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...Vegas." So Louis Hoffner, 28 years old, went off to serve his life sentence in Clinton Prison, Dannemora, N.Y. But outside Dannemora, more and more voices were insisting that Hoffner was innocent. A policeman friend of the family, an attorney, a New York World-Telegram reporter, set to work to dig up the irregularities, and they found plenty, e.g., that Louis Hoffner's prosecutors had in effect concealed the shaky identification in the lineup. In November 1952, Louis Hoffner was set free...
...native of Providence, Bill Robinson graduated from New York University, did so well as the New York World-Telegram local ad manager that the Hearst chain grabbed him, made him assistant general manager. In 1936 the New York Herald Tribune hired him away as ad manager, eventually made him executive vice president and publisher. A year ago, after the death of Steve Hannagan, Robinson left the Trib to boss the publicity agency. He has resigned from Robinson-Hannagan, but the firm will continue to handle Coke's public relations...
They have dropped more than that in profits. Last week only four of the seven* Manhattan dailies were making money. Operating in the red were the liberal Republican Herald Tribune; the hard-hitting Republican World-Telegram and Sun, flagship of the 19-paper Scripps-Howard chain; and the banner-lining Journal-American, home paper of William R. Hearst Jr.'s 16-paper chain. The august Times, the sassy News, the Fair-Dealing Post have been making money, and so, reportedly, has Hearst's tabloid Mirror. But all their profit margins are down...
...World-Telegram and Sun has followed the trend toward less news, more entertainment. But the paper has lost the verve and excitement of the old World without even keeping the stodgy completeness of the Sun. The Telly (circ. 531,469) has been able to hold only one-third of the readers it took over when it merged with the Sun in 1950. Its ads have declined, and its loss this year is estimated to be more than...
Died. James Howell Street, 50, prolific manufacturer of historical novels (Tap Roots, Goodbye, My Lady), who began at 20 as a Baptist minister, became a newspaperman (A. P., New York World-Telegram) until free-lance success in the late '30s allowed him to devote all his time to his facile tales of slave trading,dueling and boudoir derring-do; of a heart ailment; at Chapel Hill...