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...plastered all over town the biggest Los Angeles newspaper story in more than a decade. By week's end, the whispers that had been circulating for months had turned into fact. Of the city's four newspapers, two had died: Hearst's morning Examiner (circ. 381,037) and Norman Chandler's afternoon Mirror (circ. 301,882). Chandler's big and powerful Times (548,702) was left with a valuable morning monopoly, and Hearst's flamboyant Herald-Express (393,215) had the afternoon field all to itself...
...William Edward Vaughan, a floor-pacing, pipe-cleaning, book-thumbing, paper-clip-twiddling fidgeter, is already something of an anachronism. Vaughan writes "paragraphs" for the Kansas City, Mo.. Star (circ. 337,482); he practices a journalistic style so obscure that no one knows who invented it. So rare is the professional paragrapher that Vaughan is occasionally credited with being the last of the breed. He is not. But he is probably the best of a tiny handful of newsmen-among them the Cowles papers' Fletcher Knebel and Hearst's Bugs Baer-who still work...
...valuable to a conscientious spy. But even at the risk of doing a conspirator's legwork, U.S. publishers continue to do their job-and to sell their papers to anyone who pays the price. Deep in the heart of Texas, Publisher Howard McMahon of the Abilene Reporter-News (circ. 57,089) chose to take a different course...
...Mississippi redneck could guess what James Myron Ward, 42, of the Jackson Daily News (circ. 42,593) would say about the "Friction Riders"-as the News calls them. Jimmy did not let them down: "The Congress of Riot Encouragement [Ward's phrase for the Congress of Racial Equality] and concerned officials in Washington rejoice that McComb fell and the Greyhound bus terminal rest room has been integrated. While these dear hearts are jubilant over victory day, people down this way mark last Friday as VD day in Mississippi...
France-Soir, the largest evening newspaper in Paris (circ. 1,380,000), last week was the latest victim of the Secret Army Organization. Under tough, brilliant Editor Pierre Lazareff, 54, France-Soir has doggedly called for strong government action against the S.A.O., whose double aim of overthrowing De Gaulle and keeping Algeria French has resulted in hundreds of bomb explosions...