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...ripe old age of 184, the Hartford Courant is still hale, hearty (circ. 61,000) and articulate. Its readers speak up, too. In a single letters-to-the-editor column last week they hurled such epithets at the editorials across the page as "boorish," "intolerant," "jaundiced," "smug," "partisan propaganda," and "poorly written." The editors hardly winced; as long as they were getting back talk, they knew that their stuff was being read...
...Fleet Street standards, London's respected independent Sunday Observer (circ. 384,000) is not a very big paper, but it is accounted a very good one. It has only a twentieth the circulation of the garish, picture-strewn Sunday News of the World, but at least 20 times the influence. The sedate, 157-year-old Observer is only six years the junior of the hoary London Times,* and proud of its past. It missed the boat by giving the battle of Trafalgar a scant squib, but scooped the town on the outbreak of the Crimean...
...mysterious annex housed huge new presses, a topnotch photo lab, a complete city room-facilities to turn out another paper as big as the morning Times itself (circ. 400,000 daily, 800,000 Sunday). Publisher Norman Chandler had just appointed 40-year-old U.P. Vice President Virgil Pinkley, a Southern Californian with both editorial and business experience, as his "executive assistant." He had also purchased a new paper mill. And within a month, the Times had signed on 25 new staffers, was quietly organizing them into reporter-photographer teams. Stringbean-shaped U.P. man Phil Ault, who had worked with Pinkley...
Last week, bending before this blast, 14 major comic-book publishers (combined monthly circ.: 14 million) agreed to a cleanup campaign of their own. They set up a voluntary association similar to the movies' Johnston office, adopted a code of ethics for comic books, and got ready to name a czar. Among the code's provisions: 1) no "sexy, wanton comics"; 2) no glorifying of crime; 3) no "scenes of sadistic torture"; 4) no "vulgar and obscene language"; 5) no glamorizing of divorce; 6) no religious or race ridicule...
...Lafayette) Fallwell had lived a full life, and he wanted a full epitaph. Now past 70, he had crossed the country in a covered wagon, been cowboy, cook, farmer, fruitgrower, preacher and proprietor of a farmers' market. Fallwell ambled down to the La Grande (Ore.) Evening Observer (circ. 3,700) and asked how much it would cost to buy enough space to tell his whole story. He finally settled for a two-column want-ad a week, at $15 for each...