The Press: Doctor for Liberty

Constant readers of Liberty have recently been seeing less & less of it. After 23 years as a chronic money-loser, Liberty turned from a weekly into a semimonthly in February, a 10¢ monthly in August. Each change, explained Publisher Paul Hunter, was making a "more impressive package" out of the product. Advertisers were not impressed; Liberty (circ. 1,700,000) lost about $300,000 this year.

Last week the package passed into new hands. Harassed Paul Hunter had quit, to become a magazine distributor in Florida. The man who moved into his job was an aggressive "magazine...

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