"Due to the injuries he did receive in soccer, he had circulation problems, lost a toe, eventually lost both legs, I was told," Beatrice said.
By scrapping its cover charge, he increased circulation to about 600,000.
Back when advertisers had fewer options, he said, circulation was reaching a historic peak, and newspaper advertising departments raised their rates at twice the rate of inflation.
Ever since, he has used the house organ (its circulation, he says, is 10,000) to promote his construction projects and his political views.
He suffers from ulcers that he guesses are the result of the terror he buried, and circulation problems in his toes and fingers from frostbite during the 600-mile march.
And the next time he was in a restaurant or at a party where nuggets were in circulation, he avidly helped himself.
Fourteen hours passed before he was found unconscious, his legs pinned beneath him so that he had lost circulation.
Meanwhile, he added, the circulation of the paid daily has declined significantly from about 45,000 early last year, though he did not divulge the current circulation numbers.
He saw the scale on which a small paper might survive, and through advertising and circulation he ensured it".
Before long he was buying boys by the crateload; it was inevitable that once Aids was in circulation, he would fall prey to it.
