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...several would still have their say. The big national press, moved by generosity and a chance to grab some good features, promptly offered them space. Editor Kingsley Martin's New Statesman would talk to more people than its usual 75,000 in the News Chronicle, the Evening Standard, the Sunday Pictorial and the Sunday Observer (combined circ.: five million), each of which promised to carry one or another Statesman feature. But the offers were not enough to still...
...Andover preschoolers find time hanging heavy on their hands tomorrow afternoon, it will be through no fault of the Crimson's Freshman teams. A small army of Yardling trackmen, wrestlers, and basketball players will provide the Academy with a three-ring athletic circus, while attempting to grab Victoria from its traditional rivals...
...Russians mean to use the old-fashioned "grab" as a technique, then the United States must substitute wariness for any form of apriori sympathy. If the Soviets mean what they say about Spitzbergen, the only alternative for this country is staunch opposition. If the move is the demand for thirty where but fifteen is expected, America is left with the same lone path. The tragedy lies in the elimination of the other alternative--sympathy with Russian means based on confidence in Russian aims...
Better than any other press lord, the moody genius of the Daily News knew how to make the modern mass-circulation daily an attractive grab-bag, with prizes to please either sex and every taste. Critics might object that newspapers should be newspapers, and censure anything else in them as a regrettable defection from duty. But Patterson recognized that readers wanted something that was part almanac, shopping guide, magazine and variety show as well as news bulletin board. Like U.S. radio, the press dealt in news, entertainment and commercials; the amount of each might differ, but the ingredients were...
...fall of 1944 Millionaire Marshall Field, whose young Chicago Sun had not succeeded in rising above the commercial horizon, decided to grab the best talent his money could buy-preferably by taking it away from his rival, Colonel McCormick. Field invited Caniff to his apartment at 740 Park Avenue, blandly asked him: "What do you want?" Caniff hardly needed to answer: ownership of copyright. "I'm out to emancipate you," smiled Field. Then he added comfortably: "I imagine you're a well-paid slave...