For close to 15 years the circulation head of the biggest U.S. daily, the New York News (circ. 2,092,455), has been hulking, bluff Ivan Annenberg, 49, member of a legendary newspaper family. His father Max, circulation boss first of Hearst's Chicago papers and later of Mc-Cormick's Chicago Tribune, directed the roughhouse Hearst-McCormick circulation wars of the early 1900s, later went to New York to build the circulation of the new tabloid News. His Uncle Moe was the boss of U.S. horse-racing news until he was sent to prison in the largest income-tax-evasion case of his time ($9,500,000).* When Max Annenberg died...
The Press: The Fall of Ivan
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