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CATHOLIC RELIGION, said the top line of the ad in the Lubbock (Texas) Avalanche-Journal (circ. 23,000) one day in 1946. The ad continued...
...Review, but in doing it, he also unintentionally presents a case history of how a well-run newspaper can monopolize a city and dominate a sprawling region. Through the history of Spokane (pop. 160,484) there have been dozens of papers. Now there are two, the Spokesman-Review (circ. 87,000 mornings, 135,000 Sundays) and the evening Chronicle (circ. 77,000). Both are owned by the heirs of William
...Review also battled plans for Grand Coulee dam, but even former Staffer Dyar now admits that the dam brought "a new era of prosperity and growth" to the Northwest. Cowles built a quartet of still thriving tabloid weeklies, the Idaho Farmer, Washington Farmer, Oregon Farmer and Utah Farmer (total circ...
London's tabloid Daily Mirror is Britain's earthiest daily and the world's biggest (circ. 4,500,000). Until last week, its undisputed boss was 67-year-old Harry Guy Bartholomew, who was responsible for its pepperpot tone and all-out backing of Labor. Last week, after 50 years on the Mirror, "Mister Bart" was out. He was retiring, said the board of directors, because of his "advancing years and an earnest desire to promote the advancement of younger men." Actually, at a turbulent meeting of the Mirror board, Mister Bart was voted out of power...
Died. Arthur Capper, 86, onetime governor of Kansas (1915-19), longtime Republican U.S. Senator (1919-49), publisher (Capper's Farmer, Household); of pneumonia; in Topeka, Kans. Starting as a typesetter, Capper became a reporter, began investing, wound up owning two newspapers and eight farm journals (combined circ. 4,700,000) and two radio stations. Politically, he stood for farmers' benefits, isolationism (until the U.N., which he supported), prohibition (he sponsored hatchet-swinging Carry Nation's sweep through Topeka on a bar-smashing tour). He retired from the Senate...