Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into the candlelit vastness of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan, one day last week, drifted Protestants, Jews, agnostics, atheists and Communists as well as Roman Catholics, to attend a Solemn High Mass of Requiem for the soul of the late Heywood Broun. There were faces from Washington (Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter), from City Hall (Mayor LaGuardia), from Broadway (Tallulah Bankhead, George M. Cohan, George S. Kaufman, Irving Berlin), from newspaper row (pavement-pounding reporters along with Franklin P. Adams, Westbrook Pegler, Rollin Kirby, Roy W. Howard, Herbert Bayard Swope). Many friends of Heywood Broun, accustomed to going...
...circulations soaring in September. But labor has gone up, newsprint is higher, State and Federal taxes have steadily mounted. Advertising revenues have gone down. A modern newspaper must have a leased wire service, color comics, syndicated columns to build its circulation. All these come high. With one week still to go, 1939 had seen the end of 75 daily newspapers, 25 more than...
...John Boettiger, married a year to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's daughter Anna, signed a contract to run Hearst's Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Last week his contract was renewed, to run until...
When John Boettiger took over the Post-Intelligencer it had just ended a 15-week-old strike, had been losing money even before that. (West Coast newsmen have guessed that it cost Hearst $2,000,000.) For the last few months, it has reputedly made a little money. While its total advertising lineage (6,800,000) in eleven months of 1939 was approximately the same as in 1937, in retail advertising it had gained 520,000 lines, a clear indication that local businessmen have confidence in John Boettiger and his paper...
...Last week, at the Coq Rouge, swank Manhattan supper club, Bradshaw Crandell's nominee became 1939's official No. 1 Debutante, successor to the glamor crown of last year's Brenda Diana Duff Frazier. Of 300 debutantes asked to rate their choices by the Coq Rouge's pressagent, 95 had answered. They gave Miss Plunkett 72 votes, 20 more than brunette Patricia Suydam, who ran second...