WPIX Battles Networks in Independent News Strategy
Aiken Standard outlines WPIX founder Leavitt Pope weighing independence against big networks. INN expands to 69 partner stations with delayed news, counterprogramming of popular reruns, and planned noon news and editor interviews while CNN and network news dominate peak times. The piece compares reach data and emphasizes independence as a selling point.
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David
Leavitt Pope
WPIX
New York
INN
Washington
Ted Turner
Ted
Pope
CNN
Wee Willie Keeler
Kansas City
Bridge sleuths reveal a sharp contract twist in a spade game
West opens with a pass followed by a decisive double and redouble by North. South bids to game as declarer solves the hand by deduction after West leads the king of diamonds and East discourages with the two. A heart shift tests the key finesse.
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North
South
West
East
Queen of Hearts
Ingenious play to salvage contract in club dilemma
In a bridge problem, declarer faces West with potential king of clubs. By allowing West to win a heart trick and executing precise ruffing finesses he neutralizes East and West leads, discards a club, and finishes the contract losing only two diamonds and a heart.
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West
Declarer
East
Queen of Hearts
Aristotle quote on learning by doing
A crypto quote notes that we learn by doing before we can perform tasks. It attributes the idea to Aristotle and frames learning as practical experience rather than theory alone.
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Aristotle
New Curves Show Girl New Angle Dear Abby
Dear Abby offers guidance to a reader who lost 55 pounds through Overeaters Anonymous and now faces unwanted male attention while maintaining high standards. The second letter describes a missing lace napkin after a dinner and asks how to ask the guest about the theft.
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Abby
ST. Paul
Hassled
Dear Abby and wedding vows with objections
A massachusetts reader asks about calling off objections at weddings and a pastor shares cases where婚 couples chose to omit the objection question. The letter from Ralph Lord Roy of Meriden Connecticut recounts ex fiancee and ex wife interruptions and security measures used.
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Abby
First United Methodist Church
Ralph Lord Roy
Meriden
Conn
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