Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...David Stern's New York Post, which gave itself periodic shots in the arm until George Backer bought it and took it out of the narcotic ward last week, began selling cheap records as a promotion stunt last winter. The Post's Business Manager Jacob Omansky, ardent music-bibber, invented the scheme: the paper commissioned RCA Victor to make a series of special recordings, guaranteeing their cost ($150,000) should the venture fail. The music to be recorded was chosen by the Post's Musicritic Samuel Chotzinoff, a key figure in the plan because he is close...
...Washington Star, a conservative paper which rarely looks promotion in the face, admired the Post's campaign, made a deal with Publishers Service Inc., a Stern promotion subsidiary to take it over, cleansed completely of its voucher-clipping taint. The Star organized a National Committee for Music Appreciation, plugged the Committee and music in general to the top of its bent, began distributing records last February at $1.39 per set. Distribution to last week: 62,000 sets. And the Star beamed benignly as the Committee offered the album scheme to other papers-always with the stipulation: no coupons...
Last week Publisher Stern was in Manhattan winding up negotiations to sell a piece of the New York Post to City Councilman George Backer and return to Philadelphia and the Record. Milked by the Post, the Record last year lost $40,000 (which was canceled by the Camden Stern-papers' $42,000 profit) and Dave Stern could no longer afford to use it to support his ailing New York sheet. Currently he is the most harassed publisher in Philadelphia, and the man responsible for his harassment is Moses Louis Annenberg...
Toughest. Moe Annenberg hates Dave Stern with a cold, unrelenting fury. Dave Stern belongs to the uppercrust of Philadelphia Jewish society and Moe Annenberg made his money selling racing dope. Besides, Dave Stern stands between Annenberg and domination of the morning field. Although the Inquirer's, 370,000 circulation is a good deal larger than the Record's, the paper loses over $500,000 a year, has cost Publisher Annenberg an estimated $2,000,000 since he bought it from the estate of wine-bibbing, fun-loving James Elverson in 1936. Subexecutives have hung little red tags...
...Pike County lake where Transit Magnate Thomas Eugene Mitten was drowned in 1929. Moses L. Annenberg had no intention of drowning, but he wanted to think over a scheme to start a Camden paper in the fall. It would cost a lot of money, but it might drown David Stern...