Down for the Third Time

The ailing. 125-year-old Boston Post, twice forced to suspend publishing since midsummer (TIME. Sept. 3), went down for the third time last week--and most of its 800 employees counted it drowned. Bravely, the paper's three court-appointed trustees announced that they were still negotiating with prospective buyers and hoped to get the paper sold. But in ordering a shutdown "until further notice," they admitted that no deal was in sight to justify carrying the paper's weekly operating loss. Boston's other dailies began pitching energetically for the Post's 255,000 daily circulation and its Sunday circulation of 260,000.

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