Word: circe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...success of the London Daily Mirror," lamented the staid London Economist, "is a sore reflection upon a democracy, sometimes called educated, that prefers its information potted, pictorial, and spiced with sex and sensation." Nevertheless, just that style of journalism has made the Mirror the biggest daily in the world (circ. 4,432,700). Last week 40-year-old Mirror Editorial Director Hugh Cudlipp ("If you don't like the Mirror, you don't like the human race") told the erratic success story of the paper in a book, Publish and Be Damned!, as irreverent and racy...
...weekly column every Saturday, Publisher Dorothy ("Dolly") Schiff, 50, of the Fair Dealing New York Post (circ. 390,000), treats her readers to a breathlessly uninhibited account of how she has spent her time. Last week Publisher Schiff took her readers out to California. "In my last letter," wrote she, "I told you I was on my way to Los Angeles to spend my vacation with [my] grandchildren. And I promised to tell you about my adventures in Hollywood upon my return . . . When I wrote this I really had not expected to have anything special to report except possibly...
...burst of publicity two months ago, Manhattan's tabloid Daily Mirror (circ. 902,000) went to work to keep its summer circulation up by paying $25 to $1,000 every day for "Lucky Bucks" (dollar bills which have the same serial number as those printed in the paper-TIME, Aug. 17). Within a week, everyone from bank presidents to taxi drivers as far away as Florida and California was riffling through his dollar bills looking for Lucky Bucks. Manhattan's tabloid Daily News, biggest daily in the U.S. (circ. 2,200,000), eyed the Mirror's stunt...
...millionaire some day." It was an accurate prediction. At 59, Publisher Thomson owns a string of 18 dailies all over Canada, close to one-fourth of Canada's English-language newspapers. Last year he pushed into the U.S. by buying the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Independent (circ. 25,754), and this year he reached across the Atlantic to start the Canada Review, a weekly for Canadians in Britain and Britons with business interests in Canada...
Last week Canadian-born Thomson crossed the ocean again for the biggest newspaper deal of his brief but spectacular career. For about $3,000,000, he bought control of Scotland's small but influential 136-year-old morning Scotsman (circ. 55,000) and its sister papers, the Edinburgh Evening Dispatch (71,000) and the Weekly Scotsman (66,000). In taking control of the papers from old Scottish family ownership, Thomson gets a staff of 800, a 13-story Renaissance-style building that cost $2,400,000 in 1904, and the prestige of a pioneer publishing company. On the Scotsman...