Are there enough Britons interested in the U.S. to support a weekly newspaper devoted entirely to U.S. news?
Two journalists, one English, one American, thought there were. Together they talked a group of English backers into supporting the hunch with £23,000. Last week they put out the first issue of the 16-page, pocket-size weekly American Outlook. Outlook will sell for a whopping five guineas ($21) a year, and will break even only if it gets 5,000 subscribers.
The first issue included an editorial on the Truman Doctrine ("In 1901, Theodore Roosevelt said, 'Speak softly and carry a big stick.' . . . Mr....
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