Q. Why do you want to buy more papers?
A. To make more money.
Q. Why do you want to make more money?
A. To buy more papers.
In the 27 years since he laid acquisitive hands on a wan northern Canadian weekly called the Timmins Press, Toronto-born Roy Herbert Thomson, 67, has collected 93 newspapers, more than anyone else in the world. This year Newspaper Collector Thomson branched out into magazine buying, was just about to close a deal for a big British periodical publishing house, Odhams Press Ltd. (200 magazines, newspapers, trade and technical journals and annual directories), when Press Lord Cecil Harmsworth...
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