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...Frank Miller of the Des Moines Register; Editorial writing: Ira B. Harkey Jr. of the Pascagoula, Miss., Chronicle; Local reporting not under deadline: Oscar O. Griffin Jr. of the Pecos, Texas, Independent and Enterprise; Local reporting under deadline: Sylvan Fox, Anthony Shannon and William Longgood of the New York World-Telegram and Sun; International reporting: Hal Hendrix of the Miami News; Public service: the Chicago Daily News...
...competitor is publishing." He might have a point. Though the Post's pre-strike circulation was only 327,629, it was expected to run off at least 500,000 papers a day in an effort to pick up readers from the idle Journal-American (circ. 601,625) and World-Telegram (442,936). Powers insisted that Mrs. Schiff would have settled "a long time ago" but for fear of "retribution from advertisers." What suddenly made Dolly change her mind...
...Post's economic troubles are over, at least for the duration of the strike. The paper's two afternoon rivals, the World-Telegram and Sun and the Journal-American were closed down by the walkout, along with the morning Times and Daily News...
Before the strike the Post had a circulation of 335,859, third among New York afternoon papers behind the World-Telegram and the Journal-American...
Separate Pleas. By any measure, the strike's burden seemed larger than any of the principals, or even the innocent bystanders, could long accept. "We Miss You Too," said the World-Telegram, in a despondent ad posted all over New York's subway system. Broadway languished, as thousands of would-be theatergoers passed up a play or a movie because they had no simple way of discovering what was on. Christmas crowds still teemed through the city, their bullish mood hardly dampened for lack of those invaluable stimulants, the display ads. New York City's department stores...