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...Thomson's U.S. papers are in cities with populations under 125,000, and that goes for the latest purchase as well. The Brush-Moore papers range from the Canton (Ohio) Repository (circ. 73,000) and the San Gabriel Val ley (Calif.) Tribune (72,000) to the Weirton (W. Va.) Daily Times...
Each morning, when Lord Thomson of Fleet wakes up in Buckinghamshire, he can never be quite sure how many newspapers he owns. Even if he knew the precise count before he went to bed, the figure could easily have changed overnight - such is the pace at which he has been accumulating papers. His latest acquisition is the Brush-Moore chain of twelve dailies and six weeklies scattered around...
...doldrums-victims of a national economic squeeze that has cut severely into their ad revenues. Yet the London Times, once considered the most vulnerable of them all, has snapped out of the crisis in a way that has startled Fleet Street. Under its new owner, Lord Thomson, the stodgy "Grey Lady of Printing House Square" has turned into a stylish swinger. In the seven months since the Thomson team took over, her circulation has jumped to 350,000-a 30% increase. "The British have lost an institution," says Columnist Peter Jenkins of the rival Guardian, "but gained a newspaper...
...game, the late auto heir and playboy Horace Dodge, who died at 63 in 1963, took it all with him and more. Unable to get along on his $150,000 yearly income from a trust fund, Dodge managed to borrow at least $10 million from his mother, Mrs. Anna Thomson Dodge, 99, to bankroll his wining and wiving. When his estate was probated, it totaled a pitiable $718,278, enough to pay off 4? on the dollar on $ 12 million in court-approved claims by his mother and four former wives...
...lion of metals." Underneath we note part of two arched Venetian foot-bridges, both of gold. A short masque takes place on stage, but we are put somewhat ill-at-ease by the dissonant musical score provided by Richard Peaslee (a far cry from the pleasant harmonies Virgil Thomson composed for the Festival's Merchant of exactly ten years...