Publishers Merge: Times Mirror Co., which owns...

Publishers Merge: Times Mirror Co., which owns The Times and other media properties, said its health-science publishers, C. V. Mosby Co. of St. Louis and Year Book Medical Publishers Inc. of Chicago, have merged to form Mosby-Year Book Inc. The new company, to be headquartered in St. Louis, will continue to publish both Mosby and Year Book imprints and will retain all of its current offices. John F. Dill, who has been president and chief executive of Year Book, will hold the same positions with Mosby-Year Book. He will report to Patrick A. Clifford, who has been president and chief executive of Mosby and textbook publisher Richard D. Irwin Inc. and was recently named a Times Mirror vice president in charge of medical, scientific, technical and college publishing.