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...Thomson's U.S. papers are in cities with populations under 125,000, and that goes for the latest purchase as well. The Brush-Moore papers range from the Canton (Ohio) Repository (circ. 73,000) and the San Gabriel Val ley (Calif.) Tribune (72,000) to the Weirton (W. Va.) Daily Times...
...chain was started in 1923, when Louis H. Brush, a young publisher with two Ohio papers, and Roy Moore, sales manager for King Features, raised $550,000 to buy the Marion (Ohio) Star from President Warren Harding two months before his death...
...Buckinghamshire, he can never be quite sure how many newspapers he owns. Even if he knew the precise count before he went to bed, the figure could easily have changed overnight - such is the pace at which he has been accumulating papers. His latest acquisition is the Brush-Moore chain of twelve dailies and six weeklies scattered around...
Affairs in Order. "We've known these people for years," says St. Clair Mc-Cabe, Thomson's general manager for North America, "but we never thought they'd sell." Brush-Moore sold because its owners were losing interest in the newspaper business and wanted to set their estate affairs in order. One group of stockholders tried to hold on to a few papers, but Thomson was adamant about getting them all. The only thing he did not get was the chain's one radio station, WHBC, in Canton; the 1912 Communications Act forbids an alien...
...Darmstadt courses opened in 1946 as refreshers for Hitler-frustrated German musicians who wanted to brush up on their Stravinsky, Bartok, Hindemith and Schoenberg. In succeeding years, Darmstadt focused on the development of serial techniques in Schoenberg and Webern, and gave exposure to the works of such post-serial experimenters as Edgar Varese and Olivier Messiaen. Soon younger composers-notably Hans Werner Henze and Pierre Boulez-began unveiling compositions of their own at the festival's semiprivate "workshop" concerts...