The Press: Hide & Seek

New Yorkers were buying their morning Times and afternoon World-Telegram and Sun under the counter at Union News Co. dealers last week. Reason: a campaign by Union News Co.'s President Henry Garfinkle to hike newsstand prices of the city's dailies to make up the cost of a dealer strike last winter. "All I want is my profit," said Garfinkle. His equally profit-minded dealers followed orders to "hide" the papers, but chanted to passersby: "If you don't see it, ask for it."

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