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...middle: "Sorry, sir, the paper has been discontinued." Left March. The staunch Tory politics of the Kemsley Glasgow papers will veer left of center under New Owner King, who considers himself an independent liberal. "That means I can be any thing I want," he explains candidly. "The Mirror is leftish, of course, but we've been moving right for the past two years...
...Sorry, Sir." In addition to his other Glasgow acquisitions, the Sunday Mail and the Evening News ("This is mainly an experiment-we don't know much about evening papers"), King made a deal to have the huge Kemsley plant in Manchester print 1,000,000 copies of the Mirror and 1,500,000 copies of the Sunday Pictorial (circ. 5,466,255). "We've been under a handicap," explained King, "by printing only in London while others have printed in both London and Manchester. We have had to close out our northern copies early...
...Greedy labor unions and inept management are driving other newspapers out of business," he says. "I hope they don't, really, because I like to see variety. But one thing I know. The Mirror will flourish. And I shan't rest until the Pictorial overtakes the News of the World [the Sunday paper which, at 7,971,000 has the highest circulation on earth]. We won't be buying anything else for a while, though. We'll have to digest this lot before we look for our next meal...
...Though ownership of Mirror stock is widely scattered, King holds control through his own bloc, probably the second largest, plus the proxy of the paper's largest single shareholder, Multimillionaire Shipowner Sir John Reeves Ellerman...
...only does Payne-Whitney offer classes in uncommon sports, but its facilities for even ordinary sports are unusual. Each individual sport such as boxing, wrestling, and fencing has its own giant room. For fencing there is a unique device with a foil attached to a mirror, to enable students to fence themselves...