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...middle of a press run, A.F.L. pressmen at Portland's afternoon Oregon Journal (circ. 195,150) had climbed out of their ink-stained overalls, changed into street clothes and struck for a $2.50-a-week raise. At the morning Oregonian (circ. 218,400), the pressmen also walked out. By last weekend, Portland (pop. 363,141) had been without daily papers for nine days-and it didn't like the strange experience...
...After 19 years, the Pittsburgh Bulletin Index quit. In its hectic lifetime, the B.I. had been at times a society chronicle, at times a muckraking political journal. But for most of the last 15 years, it had been a regional newsmagazine (peak circ. 12,000). The changes failed to turn it into a moneymaker. At the end, it was losing $1,000 a week...
...totted up after a month of heavy fighting, the London Daily Mirror claimed victory. By passing Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express, the tabloid Mirror had become the world's biggest daily. In January its circulation had jumped 487,000, to 4,187,403. Commented the sound, small (circ. 42,000) weekly London Economist: "The success of the Daily Mirror is a sorry reflection upon a democracy, sometimes called educated, which prefers its information potted, pictorial, and spiced with sex and sensation...
Pittsburgh already has two Sunday papers: Hearst's Sun-Telegraph (circ. 600,000) and the Scripps-Howard Press (circ. 500,000). They politely doubted that there was room for three. Editor E. T. Leech of the Press welcomed the newcomer with a warning: it would start "under a heavy handicap ... in a race in which economic factors make it almost certain that only two can finish...
Died. William Rust, 45, cockney-born founding member of the British Communist Party and since 1930 editor of the London Daily Worker (circ. 120,000); of a stroke; in London...