Word: circe
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France mourned officially for two full days. Premier René Mayer's government ordered the tricolor lowered on military posts. Next day, Le Figaro (circ. 426,000) protested: "Marshal Stalin is leaving us other souvenirs . . . His name is linked to the struggle of our troops in Indo-China and Korea. [The Soviet Union] helps in prolonging a terrible war . . . Have our authorities thought of the effect which [lowering the flag] will have on the morale of our combat units...
...Texan knows, the Lone Star State is the biggest, richest, toughest and most cultured in the land, with the prettiest women; Texans learn all this at their mothers' knees. But last week, in a free-swinging, heavy-handed piece of low humor, Esquire (circ. 819,000) took exception. The article, under the pen name Bernard Dorrity and the title "Let's Secede from Texas," described the state as a "geographical hemorrhoid." Its cotton land "is now poor and desolate," its grazing lands "worthless," its "mean, mangy and narrow" citizens are "boors when sober [and] downright dangerous when drunk...
...William C. Whitney, the magazine could always rely on a trust fund which she set up. Last week Editor Michael Straight, 36, son of the founders, announced a radical change. The trustees, in "the interests of beneficiaries who are minors," will no longer put money into the New Republic (circ. 36,000). Hence forth, NR will fend for itself. Editor Straight, having raised money from "businessmen, bankers and lawyers," named a new publisher: Gilbert Harrison, 37, a U.C.L.A. graduate; one of the founders and an ex-national chairman of the American Veterans Committee (which Straight also once headed...
...Baptist minister, was asked whether works of art showing nude women would be banned by the board. Replied Censor Wesberry: "I don't discriminate between nude women whether they are art or not. It's all lustful to me." Editor Hubert Dyar of the weekly Royston Record (circ. 1,256), another censor, heartily agreed, and so did the third censor, William Boswell, a Greensboro theater owner...
Another West Coast newspaper got a new boss last week. With the death of Publisher Philip Jackson of Portland's Oregon Journal (circ. 192,249), his mother, 90-year-old Maria ("Ria") Jackson, named General Manager William W. Knight, 44, the new Journal boss. Spry, autocratic Ria Jackson, who ran the paper for years and still keeps an eye on it, also scotched rumors that Publisher Samuel I. Newhouse, owner of Portland's morning Oregonian (circ. 225,421) and nine other dailies, was going to buy the Journal. Said Mrs. Jackson: "I want Portland and all the world...