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The article focuses on the wealth accumulated by Samuel I. Newhouse from New York out of newspapers for 40 years. He starts investing in the business for 49,000 dollars in 1922 by buying a slice of "Staten Island Advance." He spends some 122 million dollars collecting properties that include newspapers, radio, and television (TV) stations. His purchase of "Times-Picayune" and "States-Item" serves as the biggest deal in the U.S. journalistic history.

The article offers information related to the newspaper industry in New York. It mentions that the state has a place of newspaper superlatives which produce more papers everyday in more languages and in greater variety. According to the author, the state's newspaper competition is not merely savage, where disadvantages can be noticed in the industry's profiting due to competition between newspaper companies.

The article reports that since New York World Journal Tribune (WJT) ended in May 1967, the New York Times and the New York Daily News, both have printing capacity and competence, seemed likely put out an afternoon paper. However, it notes that some observers see that neither of the two had ever had any intention on bringing out new paper, instead of only wanting to discourage anyone who venture into the afternoon field. Nevertheless, the New York Post inherits the afternoon pro tern.

The article focuses on the move of the periodical "Daily News" to publish an afternoon newspaper in New York. It states that the newspaper plans to reach a higher income by venturing into the afternoon field. It notes that it will publish five times a week and contributors are recruited almost entirely from the outside. The paper feels secure of the circulation as it could be printed 20% less cost and has faster presses than that of the periodical "World Journal Tribune."

The article discusses issues faced by the consolidation and mergers of corporations sector in New York. One of these merger issues was an imminent merger between the daily "World-Telegram" and the "Journal-American" which triggered the controversy as to who will manage the new company. It notes that most of the journal companies are losing their financial standards.

The article reports on the three-way newspaper merger in New York. It states that the newspaper "World Journal" will replace the "Journal-American" and the "World-Telegram and Sun" which will be edited by Frank Conniff who won a Pulitzer Prize for his interviews with international leaders. It mentions that the newspaper "World Journal and Tribune" will be a Sunday edition combination of the "Herald Tribune" and the "Sunday Journal" to be edited by Herbert Kamm.

The article reports that the "Herald Tribune" newspaper will cover its story about New York City. James G. Bellows, editor of the newspaper, states their goal in focusing the city and its suburban communities and cites the areas they are about to cover including trends, fashion, health, political, and economic issues within the city. Moreover, it also notes the strategy of the newspaper's publisher in competing with their top contenders.

The article reports on the technological innovation in New York publishers on their production systems and it's the agreement with the Big Six. It states that the 1,400 regular and 385 part-time printers of New York Times and Daily News have received lifetime job security and incentives. It notes that the modern equipment has required fewer and less skilled operators which offers the publishers great economies. However, president of Big Six Bertram A. Powers has refused to allow the innovations that would replace his members. Moreover, it mentions the average 26.6% of pretax profit margins gained by the New York Times in Florida and North Carolina during the six months of automation.

The article reports on the settlement of a four-week-old newspaper strike in 1966 in New York. Bert Powers, the printers' boss, agreed to eliminate the 400 printers' jobs, while the publishers agreed to give dismissed printers eight weeks' severance pay. However, the issue of seniority in hiring for the new papers remained unresolved.

The article reports on the impact of the newspaper merger on the publishing force in New York and employment availability to those who work for newspapers. It mentions the concerns regarding threats of possible strike from unions as the merger will cast out some 2,000 people from work including 901 newspaper guildsmen, 450 printers, and 41 stereo-typists. Moreover, it notes that a publicity campaign of the new merged newspapers should be set in motion if a strike delays the publication date.

The article reports that no editorials were published during the New York pressmen's strike, when New York City dailies were published in combined form. The public criticized the combined paper for leaving out editorials and retaining scandal stories and comic strips. The newspapers' editors defended their action, saying that it was not right to print Republican editorials in a newspaper carrying Democratic journals among its printed titles and vice versa.

The article focuses on the controversy concerning the office battle about careers and advancement at "The New York Times" in New York. It questions on how the paper is run and by whom, indicating that the paper has more editorial direction than most of the nation's dailies. It notes that the paper's trio of top editors, Turner Catledge, Clifton Daniel, and A. M. Rosenthal, have long wanted to assert more authority and central purpose, particularly to the Washington bureau.

The article focuses on the implications of the twelve dollar a-week-agreement between the management and the publishers in New York. It states that Bert Powers, head of Local 6 of the International Typographical Union wanted more from the raise spread agreement with the Newspaper Guild and four other Unions. It claims that the publishers, however, conceded and offered Powers a 12 dollar-increase including all of the salary savings for the setting of stock quotations.

The article discusses the troubles faced by H. Keith Zahn after taking a class action suit against New York pulpmaker International Paper Co. on behalf of himself and 200 others. It mentions that class action has become a popular tactic which allows a large group of people with a common complaint to join together in one suit. It affirms that the group is alleging 40 million dollars in damages because of the pollution caused by the factory. It relates that most of Zhan's coplaintiffs who suffered less than 10,000 dollars in damages were ordered by the federal court to backout from their claims since it is part of the requirement.

The article offers information on the release of Black Panther member, Joan Bird from jail after 15 months, who was arrested on the charges of planning to bomb public places. It states that Bird's bail of 100,000 was raised by her friends, in the form of New York State municipal bonds. It mentions that her lawyers purchased the necessary papers for her bail, for less than half its face value, because of a depressed bond market.

The article reports on the move of the tabloid "News" to publish the names of several citizens of New York to whom the state government is indebted of about 5 million dollars in income-tax refunds in 1952. It was noted that such move was a smart circulation strategy for the tabloid. The tabloid reportedly convinced the U.S. Treasury to publish the names to recover the refunds. Also noted is the decision of the Internal Revenue to issue the names of those people to any periodical.

The article reports on the indictment of painting dealer David Stein for selling fake paintings in New York. It states that Stein has been charged with 97 counterfeiting and grand larceny for signing and faking the papers for 33 Chagalls, seven Picassos, and one Matisse paintings and selling them to oilman Algur Meadows, five other collectors, and seven dealers. It notes that Stein had no formal art training but when discovered his ability for successful copying, he used it to copy paintings.

The article focuses on the journalism career of Marion Javits, wife of the Republican Senator Jacob Javits from New York. Mrs. Javits has long sought a suitable form of self-expression before turning to journalism where she wrote a column for "Manhattan East," an uptown uppercrust weekly. The venture of Mrs. Javits into Manhattan journalism has encouraged both her humility and boldness.

The article offers information on the show entitled "Eight Contemporary Artists," assembled by curator Jennifer Licht, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Most of the artists are below 40 years of age and work in the area where conceptual art lays. The more fulfilling groups of work are by Dorothea Rockburne, Jan Dibbets and Brice Marden. Other artists include Italian Alighiero Boetti, the Frenchman Daniel Buren and the Australian Robert Hunter.

The article focuses on the negotiations for the New York newspapers strike over the issues of automation in 1965. Executive vice president and chief negotiator Thomas J. Murphy of the Newspaper Guild of New York says that the negotiation seems to be a test of strength instead of collective bargaining. It mentions that "Herald Tribune" has resigned from the New York Publishers Association, while the publishers gave veto right to the International Typographical Union (I.T.U.) on the new machines.

The article reports on the vote of the Newsdealers Association executive board in favor of barring the communist periodical "Daily Worker" from newsstands in New York in November 1950. The communist paper argued that such move was a violation of freedom of the press. The cause of the paper has obtained support from capitalistic and anti-Red sources. As a result of the opposition, the association has decided to poll all newsdealers before acting on the vote.

The article focuses on the cause and impact of the 90 minutes strike by the periodical firms at Manhattan in New York, New York. The strike tackles the issue on the disagreement on the eight-hour work shift required on Saturday night for the pressmen. The Printing Pressmen is one of ten unions that the have disagreed on the terms of the newly merged corporation.

The article focuses on the strikes held by the employees of the newly merged World Journal Tribune in New York.

The article reports that five daily newspapers came back to operation in the second week of March 168 after they were forced to shut down in New York. It mentions that they closed down their operations because members of the International Typographical Union (ITU) hacked up 75 pages of "Boston Globe's" composing room. It states that only one newspaper, "The Christian Science Monitor" continued its operation, while federal and state mediators worked hard to end the strike.

The article presents an update on the New York City press as of March 3, 1923. Author Upton Sinclair accused large metropolitan newspapers of fearing the owners of department stores. The publication "New York Call" has failed to run a story about John Wanamaker II, son of Wanamaker stores president Rodman Wanamaker, who was sentenced to six months in a French prison for signing spurious checks. City Comptroller Charles L. Craig was featured in "New York American" editorials.

The article accounts the story of pop singer Andy Warhol and artist Edie Sedgwick. It mentions their participation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan, New York in April 1968 to celebrate the opening of its "Three Centuries of American Painting" exhibition. It also mentions the experience of Andy and Edie before they became companions, along with details of how they met.

The article reports on the probe by New York Commissioner of Investigation, Louis Kaplan, on the crime of extortion of hush money from cheating butchers. According to the author, the investigation led to the implication of the City's Bureau of Weights and Measures Director, Frederick J. Loughran, Inspector Bert Smith, Emmanuel Lapidus, President of the Salesmen and Poultry Workers Union, and a hundred butchers. The testimony of butcher Manny Seligman is also mentioned.

The article reports on the refurbishment of several taxis in New York for a more fashionable look. It mentions the employment of designer Carleton Varney to renovate the taxis in Holiday Inn splendor owned by one of the biggest taxi fleets Helen Maintenance which changes the look from the interior walls to the seats, ceilings, and seat belts. It also states the intent of Scull's Angels, another large fleet, to have a decoration on its taxi's interiors and addition of meals at backseats.

The article offers information on a memento sealed in a capsule discovered from the demolished building of the "New York Tribune" in 1968 in Manhattan, New York City. It states that the recaptured capsule is from the elder daughter of Horace Greeley, 19th century founder-publisher of "New York Tribune." The contents of the capsule include an envelope with a message to the descendants of Tribune's financial editor Stephen Tully Clarke and his wife Charlotte Augusta Clarke along with photographs of the whole family. It also says that the Clarke heirs are requested to step forward and claim the family portraits.

The article offers information of Ellsworth Kelly, an artist that opens the new season at New York's Museum of Modern Art (MOMA). Kelly arises closest to the spirit of classicism of all living American painters. Kelly started his classic painting when he visited an exhibition at the Musée d'Art Moderne that he notices the large windows between the paintings and it interested him more. Two new books on him at the MOMA show including one by Artform editor John Coplans and a catalogue by Art historian Eugene Goossen. Moreover, the author presents the experiences of Kelly and his art works including Relief with Blue 1950, Meschers 1951, and Blue Curve V 1973.

The article features the house in Scarsdale, New York which is owned by Walter K. Pleuthner. It notes that the house which was built in 1922 was considered as the most authentic replicas of a 16th century English country. However, officials in the town city have ordered Pleuthner to demolish the house as it can be considered as dangerous and unsafe after a succession of small fires have affected the structure of the house.

The article reports on the several cases of senseless killings in the U.S. One of the cases is the murder of 18-year-old Eileen Fahey, an employee at Columbia University's American Physical Society in New York in late July 1952. The killer, Bayard Pfundtner Peakes, is a former military man who was discharged from service due to a mental disorder. It cites the arrest of teenagers Edward Baldwin and Donald Ferrick, who have shot to death a student named Samuel Bernard London because they just wanted to prove that they are not cowards.

The article reports on the strike of the staffers of the "New York Herald Tribune" newspaper. It states that the newspaper's key staffers have drifted away to other jobs and the rest have been advised to start looking elsewhere. It notes that the newspaper had merged with World Journal Tribune Inc. (WJTI). It also mentions that WJTI president Matt Meyer expressed that the newspaper's fate has not been decided yet.

The article reports on the strike of New York newspaper employees. The newly formed World Journal Tribune Inc. is merged by three dailies, with the Herald Tribune as the main company in danger. Furthermore, Herald Tribune Publisher John Hay Whitney comments on the recent situation on the management of the new company, the dismissal and severance pay of employees, despite the unsuccessful intervention of Mayor John Lindsay.

The article focuses on Craig Claiborne, the food and restaurant editor of "New York Times" who was regarded as the most important cuisine critic in New York City. Claiborne was born in Mississippi and enrolled at the Swiss Hotelkeepers' Association school in Lausanne, Switzerland. He became the first man hired as food editor of "Times" to replace Jane Nickerson. It says that his talent for entertaining led him to write a regular feature on several hosts and hostesses in the country.

The article focuses on the ceremony of Daisy Chain at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. It states that some individuals condemn the ceremony, and thinks it as cheap and vulgar, and resembles a bathing beauty contest. A consultation by the Seniors was held in February 1925, wherein the ceremony was decided not to be abolished and to be held this year as usual. It states that while beauty is the prerequisite to be selected to carry the chain, popularity is counted as a degree of beauty.

The article reports on the conclusion of pressmen's strike in New York City in October 1923. International Pressmen's Union president George Berry had dissolved the local union that conducted a strike without sanction and had negotiated more favorable terms with the newspapers. The strikers who returned to work received wage increases and shorter working hours. A reward was offered by the Hearst newspapers for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person who killed one of their strike-breakers.

The article reports on the fire incident happened at the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Rack near in Manhattan, New York City. It mentions the immediate response of the city's fire department in extinguishing fire on the train's undercarriage. In addition, it cites the stranded condition of several passengers and notes their way to kill the time. Moreover, the rescue of injured firefighters who have been whiplashed is also noted.

The article highlights the rising cases of substance abuse among children, with reference to the case of Ralph de Jesus, a 12 year old boy addicted to heroin use. He was also in the habit of selling drugs to his friends in order to support his habit. Ralph recently visited the Odyssey House of Manhattan, New York City, to get treatment for cocaine use. The article also highlights some other cases of drug addicts in the New York City area, including case of children form suburban areas who have excessively resorted to heroin abuse.

The article discusses the art auction held at the Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc., the biggest auction house in New York. It describes the concept of auctioning and features several notable dealers such as Joseph Duveen and Georges Wildenstein along with their bidding strategies. It also looks into the condition of the art market in relation to the law of supply and demand, as well as the customer's preferences.

The article focuses on the death of gangster Joseph Gallo or Crazy Joe, one of the feared Mafiosi in New York who celebrated his 43rd birthday. It states that Gallo and his bodyguard Pete Diopioulis were hit by a gunman while having an Italian breakfast at the Little Italy restaurant along with his sister Carmella and his wife Sina Essary with her daughter Lisa. It mentions that the murder of Gallo, whose life was grounded from the growing fratricidal underworld of New York.

The article offers information on the events leading to the engagement of U.S. President Richard Nixon's daughter Tricia Nixon with Edward Cox. It reveals that both met on a blind date at Chapin School dance in 1963 in New York. It discusses about Cox's family members. It mentions that the marriage is expected to take place in June 1971. It informs that the prime Minister of Ireland John Lynch was the guest of honor in engagement ceremony.

The article reports on the revival of New York magazines such as the New York Herald Tribune and the World Journal Tribune. It states that the circulation of the magazine has been boosted with the incentive promotion campaign offered to readers. It notes that columnists have also returned in the New York scene together with the World Journal Tribune.