LOCAL MAGAZINES ENLIVENING SEVERAL CITIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01314R000300120009-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 14, 2004
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: August 14, 1969
• Content Type: NSPR

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Philadelphia Inqui;?cr and F; nt
Magazine this year to be,'
Ambassad
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or ao Britai n, was
Range the subject Of a ltinhl - come Publisher o Chica ,o-
Publications
fl;ttcrinR ? y un land, the Twin Citian (Min
From the Bland to ;,that may twO-Part Portrait ncapolis-St. Paul) and 5t. SPG- >r, .~ ri~ t
Louis. LC~O t . l~
into a book. Chicagolarid's lead article t4-) `a
the Aggressive Before that, Philadelphia
Magazine exposed anIn- "his month is "The Mob and t {~ , i .U u.- G~ 3 z
i1,i. Daley." The editor, Jay
By DONALD JANSON quirer reporter, Harry J. Robert Nash, called the mag-'?
.~pct!nl to The N w Sofa Times Karafin, as using his job to azinc's reports "the kind Of ?.'
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 13- shake down businessmen by stories newspapers won't,
A Chicagoan recently do- threatening adverse publicity. touch." They contrast sharp- s
scribed Philadelphia as "the Last October Karafin was lY with the promotional a.rti
city v, ith that lively maga- Convicted on 20 counts of sil nedn Chcca he, utM?tlbazinde-i
e,
zir,e. blackmail -and 20 counts of published by a foundation
A number of interests in
l e City of Brotherly Love corrupt solicitation. s c t 1;p by Mayor Richard J.
with Philadelphia Magazine There was no mention of Dalev's Committee for Eco
%vere less lively, the foundation and Karafin nomic and Cultural Develop-;
Philadelphia is perhaps the affairs by other Philadelphia ment.
most aggressive and irrever- media until the magazine un The four-year-old Wash
ent of a growing number of covered them. ing tonian, one of the bright-i
slick-paper local magazines, Mayor Janes H. J. Tate, est of the new breed, still;
now totaling about 60, that attacked once again in the loses money but enjoys it-.
publicizes their cities' names current issue of Philadelphia self anyway.
and deal with their life and as blunder prone," is among "why is this rat smiling?" I
problems. those who dislike the maga- it asked recently in an arti-'
(New York and New York- zinc. His office has called the cle on the capital as a mecca';,
or magazines, as weeklies magazine "irresponsible." for rodents,
with national circulations, The sophisticated, attrac If that was hardly de-
are in a different category,' tively designed periodical has signed to please the Distrit:;.
though New York magazine a staff of 36 and an audited; of Columbia Board of Trade,'
tackles similar local sub-' paid circulation of 62,000.: the Washingtonian has com-
jects.)
The growth of local maga-
zines has cut sharply into the,
advertising market tradition
ally held by the nationally'.
syndicated newspaper supple-;
ments, such as Parade and
This Week. The impact of.
.,the local journals was cited'
as a major factor in This
Week's plan to discontinue
publication after Nov. 2, an-
nounced yesterday.
Chamber Played Role
ago. Un i e moot of ice ci y
1k
magazines, the unsubsidized ! the 'staid city were exposed I vides a counterweight to the
Philadelphia is now making' as anderers do sex The; conservative Copley news-,?
the others, it has severed all,
ties with the local chamber.
The change in course to wide-i
ranging investigative report-
ing came after D. Herbert!
Lipson, now 40 years old, be-'
came publisher a few years
,? 1 t
Sales of Philadelphia on pensated somewhat by lead-
newsstands here exceed those, ing a campaign to capture
of all other magazines except the country's 1976 bicentcn-
Playboy end TV Guide.. nial celebration for Washing-
Most of Philadelphia is ton.
written by staff members, "I think we're at least):
but other writers are paid up. partly responsible for goos-'j
to $800 for articles. One, by.. log people to do something
Kristin Hunter, won the Sig- about this," said Laughlin
ma Delta Chi award for mag- Phillips, editor of the maga-
azine reporting last year for zinc since its birth.
illuminating problems of a. Well-known bylines fre-
bright young negro girl imp quently appear on its pages,
prisoned by ghetto life. often drawn from the Wash-"
Like most of the other Philadelphia toes stepped ington press corps. Art Buch-
local magazines, Philadelphia on by Philadelphia Magazine wald, Marquis Childs and
started as a city booster have been numerous. Both William Walton, the artist,
sponsored by the Chamber of political parties ? have been ? are on the Washingtonian's `-
money. ? birth control pill was a cover-, papers there. It is credited
"We grossed $1,230,000; with saving the La Jolla wa-
last year," said Alan IIalpern, i story subject long before the` terfront from developers who
the 43-year-old editor, during, national magazines followed sought to make a Miami
a conversation in the m.aga suit. Lesbians and male] Beach of it. Despite a threat-.1
zinc's plush, modern offices' homosexuals in Philadelphia " ened boycott by advertisers, ;
high over downtown Phila-'. were the topics of articles'", San Diego also provided a-
delphia? called "The Invisible Soror lengthy, unbiased look at the.;
The other day the Pearl S.; ? , views of Herbert Marcuse,
Buck Foundation here lost' ity and The Furtive Fra the controversial philosophy.;
its license to solicit funds in ~ ternity." This month Nancy' professor at t;;:' university
Pennsylvania after the maga- Love, the senior editor,:. or Californir t :,n Diego.
zinc had exposed misman-:stripped to do a sensitive Seattle, backed by the ra-''
agement attributed to a article on nude marathons dio and television interests'-
dance instructor wham the and other group psychologi-; of the Stimson Bullitt family,''
noted author had installed as cal encounters that have is another of the few hard- f
r???.,_,,,,;,,,, ?,.,,,.;A??,. , reached Philadelphia. hitting city rn;rr_azinna frpn of '.
Earlier in the year a lead- cnamoer suostay. l
in" Philadelphian, Wa11Q~}P,1980~~'0/29Iz1l.f8pFZ000300120009-1
Annenberg, owner of The l - A t 1 successrul y or passage of
here have felt the magazine's On the West Coast, Seattle,
stiletto. Conflicts between
Roman Catholic laymen and, San Francisco, Los Angeles
priests and the church's con-' and San Diego, also have in-,;
servative hierarchy here, dependent, well-written city A
were spotlighted. slicks. - y
a bond issue for hospital
i improvement. It 'jabbP' 'a