Word: circe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weekly National Guardian (circ. 47,000), though it follows the Communist Party line almost as faithfully as the Communist Daily Worker, claims to be a "progressive weekly affiliated with no political party." Started in 1948, the Guardian parrots the Communist charges of germ warfare in Korea, consistently berates U.S. "imperialist" expansion, runs special dispatches from Communist correspondents in North Korea, and has even printed a list of prisoners of war in Korea (TIME, May 21, 1951) that was available only to the world Communist press...
...Orleans, the warfare is bitter between Publisher David ("Tommy") Stern's evening Item (circ. 103,153) and its well-entrenched competitors, the morning Times-Picayune and afternoon States (combined circ. 274,000). Two months ago in the heat of their running battle, the Times-Picayune scored a spectacular beat over the Item. The T-P broke a story that New Orleans detectives had collected $300,000 in a series of safe robberies. After the T-P story broke, the sheriff dragged the canals and bayous, found three stolen safes, including one taken from a local finance company...
...public service" prize has always gone to a daily, usually a big one. This week, for the first time in the history of the prizes, the "public service" award for 1952 went to two country weeklies, published in North Carolina's Columbus County: the Whiteville News Reporter (circ. 5,007) and the Tabor City Tribune (circ...
City Editor Al Reck of the Oakland Tribune (circ. 182,876), who likes nothing better than to beat the San Francisco dai lies across the bay, thought he must be having a pipe dream. State Narcotics Agent Fred Braumoeller had walked into the city room and promised him a beat on a hot story in return for the services of a Tribune photographer...
Later he became the paper's editorial writer and parliamentary correspondent. Last week, when his appointment as editor was announced, the competing Irish Times (circ. 38,000) gave him an Irish sendoff: "The fact that he was given the job so young might suggest that [De Valera's party] hoped to have somebody pliable. If so, they could not have made a worse choice . . . Whether he will be able to keep his political master in order remains to be seen. But certainly they will not be able to muzzle...