One Year's Sun

Last week the Chicago Sun, born three days before Pearl Harbor, was one year old. In its first year it had:

Leveled off from a first-day, curiosity high of 896,000 to 301,000 daily and 402,000 Sunday circulation; printed 22,362,199 lines of news, almost 8,000,000 lines of advertising (its entrenched rival, the Chicago Tribune, had 19,000,000 lines of advertising in the same period); undergone a thorough shakeup that got rid of many an ex-Hearstling in editorial executive jobs; run up an estimated deficit of $3,000,000. Editorially the Sun has also come out flatly against rape and the Tribune,

Because the New York Daily News (largest U.S. daily circulation: 1,950,000) averaged only 185,000 copies in its first year (1919), Sun boosters professed last week to be optimistic. However, the News battled through its first year against many competitors (New York's Times, Herald, Tribune, World & American) and the Sun has only one, the 95-year-old Chicago Tribune.

But in the face of all this, Sun Founder Field said recently: "I'm here to stay!"

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