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...Cincinnati, when local newspapers ignored a smear campaign against a Negro running for re-election to the city council, radio station WSAI raised its voice to chastise both the whisperers and the silent press. The one-shot unscheduled broadcast did not put Candidate Theodore Berry back into office, reported a WSAI spokesman, but it brought more than 1,000 letters and phone calls, mostly approving, and goaded the newspapers into a defense of their silence...
...Field, who owned no publishing property at all a half dozen years ago, is on the verge of becoming a journalistic colossus. Besides papers in the nation's two largest cities, and his explorations into the magazine and country weekly fields, he now owns a Cincinnati radio station (WSAI), a syndicated Sunday supplement (Parade), and parts of two big book-publishing companies (Simon & Schuster and Pocket Books, Inc.-TIME, Nov. 13). But reports that he is about to set up a newspaper shop in Philadelphia and Denver are false, he says: "I don't think I believe...
...first-rate buy (TIME, Oct. 9). Last week he thought he had found it. Dipping lightly into the odd $168,000,000 in his pockets, Tycoon Field (publisher of New York's PM, Chicago's Sun, syndicated Sunday weekly Parade, owner of Cincinnati's radio station WSAI) bought smart Simon and Schuster, one of the top merchandisers in the book business, and Pocket Books, Inc., which was 49% owned by Simon and Schuster officials. Publisher Field kept the purchase price...
...sight. The book's format, price and easy proximity to masses of people pleased Publisher Field, just as it had pleased millions of other Americans. Enamored as he now is of the word business (the Chicago Sun, New York City's PM, Cincinnati's radio station WSAI). Publisher Field decided to invade book publishing...
...Last week Publisher Field bought a money maker: Cincinnati's Radio Station WSAI (5,000 watts, Blue Network), for upwards of $525,000 -subject to approval of the Federal Communications Commission, which had ordered WSAI divorced from Crosley Corp. and its superpowered (50,000 watts) Station...