Word: circe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fifteen years ago, Lord Beaverbrook's powerful Daily Express (circ. 4,000,000) tried hard to convince the world that Hitler was not dangerous. Last week Beaver-brook's Express set the tone for wanting to do business with the Communists, in words that Nye Bevan could not top: "In Britain," said the Express, "the people want world peace . . . The conviction prevails that the world is ready for peace and that governments, whatever their character, must yield to the popular will on this issue . . . Statesmen must obey their master, the public, when the master has made...
...fascinated Charles W. Morton, now the associate editor of the Atlantic, that he began collecting examples of "Elongated Yellow Fruit" writing. Friends on newspapers and magazines have joined in the game, send him the worst examples they can find for the Atlantic Bulletin, a chatty monthly promotion letter (circ. 5,000). Samples...
Since 1947, the employees of the Milwaukee Journal (circ. 333,171) have also been its majority stockholders, owning 55% of the newspaper. Last week plans were completed to sell 75,000 more shares to the "permanent" (more than five years) employees. The new stock, purchased from the estate of the Journal's onetime business manager (and later publisher), Lloyd Tilghman Boyd, will boost employee ownership to 67½%. To date, the Journal's 831 employee-owners have paid $3,325,920 for stock that has paid $6,516,000 in dividends, is now worth...
...American Newspaper Guild last week shut down a Seattle newspaper for the third time. But the strike against the prosperous, conservative Seattle Times (circ. 212,608) was like nothing that Seattle newsmen had ever seen before. By local standards, it was more of a tea party than a labor dispute...
...week apart, but at week's end, both sides seemed determined to wait it out. Meanwhile, with the mechanical unions respecting the Guild picket line, the Times made no attempt to publish. That left Seattle without an afternoon paper, and the morning Post-Intelligencer (circ. 180,828) jumped its daily run to 240,000 to pick up the slack...