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 Ingersoll Publications Co. agreed to buy the New Haven Register in a transaction 
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valued at $275 million 
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from Goodson Newspaper Group Inc. 
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 As part of the agreement, Goodson also terminated the contract 
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under which Ingersoll manages Goodson's 66 newspapers,
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 ending a long association between the two companies 
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that has turned increasingly bitter recently.
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 Goodson has accused Ingersoll of paying less attention to its properties and more to such ventures as the recent launch of the St. Louis Sun.
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 Under the terms of the accord, Ingersoll will pay about $255 million for the Register, a daily 
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that Goodson bought for about $170 million in 1986.
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 Goodson will pay the additional $20 million in settlement of the management contract.
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 Goodson also announced 
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that it hired the former president and senior vice president of Ingersoll 
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to run the Goodson papers.
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 Both executives left the company after clashes with Chairman Ralph Ingersoll Jr. 
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 Goodson,
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 which is based here, 
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will use part of the proceeds 
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to pay down debt 
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associated with its purchase of the Morristown Daily Record for $155 million in 1987.
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 The New Jersey paper, like the New Haven, Conn., paper, was purchased by Ingersoll on Goodson's behalf as part of the management contract.
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 Industry analysts have said 
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that the purchase price for the paper was too high, 
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causing a strain on Goodson's finances.
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 Investment bankers familiar with the company said 
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Goodson is seeking a new bank credit line of $190 million 
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and may have to sell additional newspapers. 
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 David N. Hurwitz, president and chief operating officer of Goodson, said in a telephone interview 
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that the company doesn't currently have any plans 
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to sell additional newspapers.
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 Goodson said David Carr, 
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former president of Ingersoll Publications, and Ray Cockburn, former senior vice president, would head the new in-house management team at Goodson, 
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which had revenue of $225 million in 1988.
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 The association between the two companies stretches back thirty years to a friendship between television producer Mark Goodson and Ingersoll founder Ralph Ingersoll.
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 The latter's son, Ralph Ingersoll Jr., took over the company 
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and has been managing the Goodson properties 
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and acting as an agent in the purchase of newspapers for Goodson.
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 But in recent years, Mr. Ingersoll began focusing more on expanding his own newspaper empire in partnership with investment banking firm Warburg, Pincus & Co. 
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Ingersoll has 28 dailies and 200 other non-daily papers in the U.S. and Europe.
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 The company said 
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its revenue will exceed $750 million this year. 
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 Ingersoll President Robert M. Jelenic said in a statement 
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that the company is delighted by the conclusion of the Goodson relationship 
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and will be able to concentrate all our energies on Ingersoll's own papers.
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 Mr. Goodson, in his own statement, was less upbeat, 
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unfortunately over the past few years, it has become increasingly clear that Ralph and I have different agendas, 
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and that he feels more comfortable with a management team 
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whose sole interest and responsibility is in the Goodson papers.
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