Word: quickstep
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Dates: during 1963-1963
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...Journal's quickstep march to disaster provided one more lesson in the brutal economics of daily journalism. Before starting the new paper. Publisher (and onetime Arizona attorney general) Robert Morrison, 53, raised $1,500,000. But merely getting born took all but $100,000 of that. By the time the paper produced its first issue-which came out eight hours late-the Journal was already suffering from malnutrition. Eugene Pulliam, whose two conservative dailies blanket Phoenix,* contemptuously ignored the newcomer. And, after a while, so did many of the people who had shared Bob Morrison's conviction that...