Last week at Chicago newsstands some 22,000 readers of William Randolph Hearst's morning Herald & Examiner picked up that paper, paused, put it down again, walked angrily away. Reason: the Herex had upped its price from 2¢ to 3¢.
Angry also was Publisher Merrill Meigs of Hearst's Evening American when he observed in his own newspaper an advertisement promising that the costlier Herex would contain new features, ''plenty of interest and entertainment for evening reading in your home. . . ." Feeling that any Hearstian reading matter consumed by Chicagoans in the evening should be supplied by his American, Publisher Meigs peremptorily...
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