Word: circe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mohamed Heikal, 29, is editor in chief of Cairo's weekly Akher Sa'a ("Last Hour" -circ. 80,000) and one of the best newsmen in Egypt. With a long list of exclusive stories to his credit, he won Egypt's most coveted journalistic prize three times, last year was the first Egyptian newsman to visit Korea. Two months ago Heikal's magazine spoke out boldly against the secret government subsidies from previous regimes which Egyptian newsmen have long pocketed. He accused the Egyptian press of "servile flattery," an attitude that was welcomed by the members...
...Rubicam, who changed it into a trade weekly which went after paid circulation and advertising in earnest. Gradually he turned Tide over to its employees, who sold some of their shares to Manhattan's Modern Industry magazine two years ago. But the competition from robust Printers' Ink (circ. 23,793) and Advertising Age (circ. 24,201) was tough to buck. Four months ago, its owners switched it from weekly to fortnightly to keep costs down. Last week they sold Tide (circ. 14,000) to Billboard, a trade weekly of show business, which hopes to supply enough capital...
...editor of the leading U.S. Protestant magazine, Dr. Paul Hutchinson, 62, of the 69-year-old Christian Century (circ. 37,000) was understandably surprised at the letter that came in from Daingerfield, Texas. Said the letter: "I am so impressed with this single copy that I would like to receive the publication for a 13-week trial. My check for $1 is enclosed ... It has long been [my] inviolate rule ... to refuse to subscribe to any magazine . . . unless the editor can and will sign and return to me the pledge appearing below...
When the British decided to sell Die Welt, Hamburg's influential daily (present circ. 200,000) they had started at war's end, more than 16 German bidders tried to buy the paper, including one who was a close friend of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. But the British were choosy. Last week they found a buyer who suited them. For an estimated $1,000,000 the High Commissioner recommended sale of Die Welt to Axel C. (for Caesar) Springer, who would thereby become the biggest publisher on the continent with control of about 15% of the circulation of West...
When a Louisiana federal court found the New Orleans Times-Picayune (circ. 175,000) and its afternoon sister, the States, guilty of unfair competition, more than 170 papers all over the U.S. viewed the situation with understandable alarm. The court had upheld the trustbusters' charge that the papers' unit ad rate (forcing advertisers to place ads in both papers if they wanted space in either one) was a violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act (TIME, June 9, 1952). Other publishers who also use the unit rate feared that the decision against the T-P and States would upset...