Word: circe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drawing board last week in the Chicago Sun-Times (circ. 544,784), Pulitzer Prizewinning Cartoonist Jacob Burck, 49, was going over the proofs of a cartoon for next day's paper. It showed the grasping hand of Soviet power being squeezed open by rebellious satellite citizens as they desperately tried to escape (title: "Losing His Grip?"). Just as he was finishing with the proof, the phone rang. On the line was a reporter from the rival Chicago Daily News. He told Burck that the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service had just ordered him deported on the grounds that...
...Philadelphia this week, Publisher Walter H. Annenberg, 45, of the Inquirer (circ. 643,985) announced a new venture in a new field. For a reported $250,000, he bought the title "Quick" from Publisher Gardner ("Mike") Cowles, who folded his pocket-size weekly last month (TIME, April 27). In mid-September, Annenberg will put on the newsstands a brand-new Quick-a Reader's Digest-sized fortnightly news-and-picture magazine with such contributors as Christian Science Monitor Editor Erwin Canham and Radio's Martha (Meet the Press) Rountree. By printing Quick on the Inquirer...
Start & Stop. When Moe Annenberg was sent to prison in 1940 (he died a month after his parole in 1942) and Walter had to take charge, he quickly proved that he knew the difference between Matisse and Adams. Against the stiff competition of Robert McLean's Evening Bulletin (circ. 693,104-"In Philadelphia nearly everybody reads the Bulletin"), he kept the Inquirer growing, started Seventeen, a fashion magazine for teenagers. (He also decided that two movie magazines, Radio Guide and Click, a picture magazine, ate up more hard-to-get paper than they were worth, killed them.) While...
Said Business Manager Alfred Chapman Jr. of the Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer (circ. 21,971) and Ledger (26,589): "We are saving at least $85,000 a year . . . TTS circuits are the salvation of many papers because they can run more news at less cost. The average reader . . . can get a better paper. We took the money we saved by TTS and plowed it back into the editorial department. That's what TTS will do for the newspaper reader...
Died. Colonel Joseph Ingham Greene, 55, editor and general manager of the Army's unofficial trade publication, Combat Forces Journal (circ. 29,400), and its predecessor, Infantry Journal; of a heart attack; in Newark...