Manhattan is a cluster of villages, and among the 1,000-odd newspapers and magazines published in Manhattan are some 20 designed for village consumption, to catch the local advertiser's dollar. These range from the snobbish, slick-paper hotel publications of Robert L. Johnson Magazines, Inc. (Waldorf's Promenade, Pierre's Pierrot, etc.) to such modest community sheets as the Tudor City View, London Terrace News, The (Greenwich) Villager. Columbus Circle has its Mid-towner, Radio City its Rockefeller Center Magazine. That is not all.
On the desks of some 1,600 executives and near-executives who work in Rockefeller Center there has appeared each fortnight this year a...