“America’s most distinguished newspaper” bought space in other Manhattan dailies last week to do a bit of bragging, in bigger type than its editorial department ever uses: THE NEW YORK TIMES SUNDAY CIRCULATION HAS PASSED 1,000,000. The Times is now the seventh biggest Sunday paper in the land.* The Times could not refrain from pointing out, in its best morning-coat fashion, the difference between itself and other members of the Big Boys’ club. It had reached its new high, said the Times, “without comics or other extraneous appeals.”
* Others: New York News (4,500,000), New York Mirror (2,100,000), Chicago Tribune (1,450,000), Philadelphia Inquirer (1,187,852), New York Journal-American (1,113,109), Chicago Her aid-American (1,090,000).
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