Word: charm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Newhouse gets two fashion magazines-Charm and Mademoiselle-and Living for Young Homemakers, with a combined circulation of 1,826,360, plus Astounding Science Fiction, Air Progress, Hobbies for Young Men, Baseball Annual and Football Annual. Newhouse plans to blend Street & Smith's Charm (circ. 635,706) with Conde Nast's Glamour (circ. 671,441), will otherwise keep the firm intact as a subsidiary of Conde Nast. Street & Smith lost better than $200,000 last year, but this is a condition that Sam Newhouse, whose 14 newspapers and seven radio and TV stations comprise a productive $175 million...
...Navy, Dr. Dooley persuaded the International Rescue Committee to set up Medico (Medical International Cooperation) to sponsor hospitals in remote, underdoctored areas. Meanwhile, he made use of his immense energy, considerable Irish charm and silver tongue to get equipment and supplies: drug and instrument manufacturers have donated material, several individual gifts topping $100,000. For ready cash, Dr. Dooley plowed in his book royalties and the proceeds from grueling lecture tours, once raised $10,000 (largely in dimes and quarters) from a single, heartfelt appeal on Dave Garroway's Today program...
...often fascinating excursion into the literary riches of a sensuous and cultivated mind. Sitwell begins his journey at the point where he dies. Traveling with other newly dead, part way by plane, part way on a craft called the Ship of Fools, he makes a voyage calculated to charm those who share a measure of Sitwell's vast reading, just as it will surely bore those who want to get on with the business of man's soul...
...book's fascination lies in a game of who's who that readers will be tempted to play. The parties are never actually labeled, but indications are that the President is a Democrat; with his infectious laugh, his habit of tossing his head and his cynical charm, he has more than a few traits of F.D.R. Leffingwell, Cooley and Anderson are blurred, composite pictures. But Senator Orrin Knox, who has been defeated twice for the presidential nomination because of his brusque honesty, owes a great deal of his fictional likeness to that of Bob Taft, while the Vice...
...headed Warsaw, says Gibney, is full of "tattered signboards with their promise of a bargain-basement brotherhood of man," and at the same time it is more Catholic than any European capital except Rome ("and more sincerely so than Rome, one suspects"). Old World charm still contends with the Reds' brave new world: "Nowhere else do so many Communists kiss so many ladies' hands." Poland today "is a place where Marxist theoreticians argue with Americans in night clubs, [where] TV commercials can be permitted on the same channels that pledge the 'workers' society...