Word: circe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although it is published in Garden City, Long Island, a quiet suburb 20 miles from the bustle of Manhattan, Alicia Patterson's tabloid Newsday (circ. 180,964) has never been content to lead the quiet life of a suburbanite. Almost two months ago, when Yonkers Raceway's Labor Boss Tommy Lewis was murdered by a hired gunman (TIME, Oct. 5), Newsday said pointedly: the Yonkers trotting track is "40 miles from [Long Island's] Roosevelt Raceway, but only inches separate [them] in operating procedure." Newsday knew what it was talking about. Unheeded by other papers...
After 80 days of one of the friendliest strikes in U.S. newspaper history, editorial staffers last week settled their disagreements with the Seattle evening Times (circ. 214,377). Terms of the settlement: a wage increase of up to 7% per week ($2.50 to $7) and an increase in editorial maximums (to $109) and fringe benefits. The Newspaper Guild, which wanted a 7-8% boost, and the Times, which offered 3-5%, were never very far apart financially or even socially. Throughout the strike, picketing staffers chatted amiably with members of the Times management entering the plant, and even got together...
...Times suffered little from the strike, since it was covered by strike insurance and had an excess-profits-tax cushion. (But another dispute with three mechanical unions prevented the paper from coming back on the streets immediately after settling its Guild strike.) Its rival, Hearst's Post-Intelligencer (circ. 184,301) picked up close to 50,000 readers and more ads than it could print, but the Times confidently expects to hold its circulation lead. Striking editorial staffers found temporary jobs, from unloading bananas and canned salmon on the city's docks to doing cleanup jobs...
...Hughes, 45, assistant city editor of the Los Angeles Mirror (circ. 188,453), is a cigar-chewing, tough-talking newsman who never got to high school. But in 23 years of covering the police beat for Los Angeles papers he has earned his own graduate degrees in crime and criminals. He mixes on such familiar terms with the underworld that the front-door of his apartment has a one-way mirror in it so that Hughes can see who is coming without the visitor's seeing him; on "tough" stories he often carries a .38 revolver, just in case...
...Hughes, 45, assistant city editor of the Los Angeles Mirror (circ. 188,453), is a cigar-chewing, tough-talking newsman who never got to high school. But in 23 years of covering the police beat for Los Angeles papers he has earned his own graduate degrees in crime and criminals. He mixes on such familiar terms with the underworld that the front-door of his apartment has a one-way mirror in it so that Hughes can see who is coming without the visitor's seeing him; on "tough" stories he often carries a .38 revolver, just in case...