Readers of Post Find No News Is Bad News
Washington-area residents ranging from stock market watchers to horse racing fans found their daily routines temporarily jarred by the absence of The Washington Post on their doorsteps yesterday morning.</br></br>Readers of stock quotations in the financial section of the paper quickly snapped up limited supplies of the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times or called their local broker for information.</br></br>Racing fans resorted to the race charts and odds published in the Baltimore papers and the Washington Star to pick their favorites at Bowie, Belmont and other tracks.</br></br>ÛÏI know my day started wrong without Andy Capp," said a worker at the Woodward & Lothrop department store downtown.</br></br>ÛÏA lot of people didnÛªt even know The Post wasnÛªt out today until they tried to buy one,Û said a Solar NewsStand employee who identified herself only as Lois. "I was really surprised by how many people didnÛªt know.Û