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...this week. In Philadelphia, where "nearly everybody reads the Bulletin" the decorous "Old Lady of Filbert Street" was all set to celebrate. For her birthday party she took over Convention Hall so that her family of 1,700 could eat-but not drink-and make merry. Leathery Robert McLean, president of the Bulletin and of the A.P., would make a little speech. And rays from the star Algol, which take 100 light years to reach Philadelphia, would trip the switch that lighted the six-foot birthday cake...
...rich and respected Bulletin remembers all too well, there was a time in Philadelphia when nearly everybody didn't read it. A onetime Pittsburgh newsboy named William L. McLean, father of Robert, changed Philadelphia's reading habits. When he borrowed $73,000 to buy the Bulletin in 1895, it was last (circ. 6,700) in a field of 13 dailies. A decade later it was out in front to stay (it now has over 800,000 a day). McLean put it there by giving Philadelphians what they seemed to want: all the news (no matter how trivial), sold...
...Kempner (Y) defeated Boericke (H) 3-1; Fox (Y) defeated Emerson (H) 3-1; Wainright (Y) defeated Cabot (H) 3-1; Mead (H) defeated Pettit (Y) 3-0; Bartle (H) defeated Weeks (Y) 3-0; Chandler (Y) defeated Earle (H) 3-2; McLoed (H) defeated Dodge (Y) 3-0; McLean (Y) defeated Weare...
...Philadelphia Sunday Bulletin had been in Publisher Robert McLean's mind for a long time, but he had never had the right kinds of things to fill it with. He got them last fortnight when he bought up the strikebound Philadelphia Record from J. David Stern (TIME...
...Abner. It included comic and book sections still under the Record emblem, and two magazine sections for the price of one: Marshall Field's Parade and Hearst's American Weekly-both of them loot from the Record. With a Sunday package like that, Publisher McLean hoped soon to take the qualifier out of his advertising slogan: "In Philadelphia, Nearly Everybody Reads the Bulletin...