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...Petersburg Independent is a member of the Thomson Group. Incidentally, the Independent is the only newspaper in the world which gives away free papers when the sun fails to shine. In 50 years the first edition has been given away free 211 times...
PRESS LORD ROY THOMSON. THE ST. PETERSBURG "TIMES" is ONE OF FEW U.S. NON-CHAIN NEWSPAPERS OWNED BY A WRITING EDITOR WITH INSTRUCTIONS TO MY EXECUTORS TO KEEP IT THAT...
...Wyoming, bidding for the job of retiring Democrat Joseph C. O'Mahoney, 76. Republican Keith Thomson, 41, ran comfortably in front of his O'Mahoney-endorsed opponent, Raymond B. Whitaker, also 41, picked up a Senate seat for his party...
Wyoming. A hard-driving Cheyenne lawyer, Keith Thomson, 41, commanded an infantry battalion in Italy during World War II, will bivouac naturally with Barry Goldwater's conservative camp in the Senate. As Wyoming's lone Congressman since 1954, Republican Thomson plumped for Army reform, favored calling older reservists to active duty and campaigned against "welfare statism as opposed to free enterprise." He opposes aid to education, public housing-any kind of federal largesse...
...Race. On its modest success, Roy Thomson has pyramided his empire. He drives hard bargains, e.g., he bought the Edinburgh Scotsman for $3,000,000, or only $600,000 more than the construction cost of its 13-story plant. He pays ad salesmen more than reporters, likes to say "there's nothing in this business that a few thousand dollars worth of advertising won't cure." But along the pathway to profit, Thomson picked up some of the instincts of a newspaperman. Selling the Empire News and getting rid of the Sunday Graphic makes good business sense...