Word: circe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arthur Summerfield becomes Postmaster General next month, he will resign as Republican national chairman. Last week most of the G.O.P. speculation about Summerfield's successor was beamed toward one man: lean, relaxed Charles Wesley (Wes) Roberts, 48. Roberts was working on his family's weekly Oskaloosa Independent (circ. 1,400) when he plunged into Republican politics in 1936. With time out for a World War II stint in the Marines, he served the Kansas G.O.P. and its state administrations in various jobs until 1950, when he got out of active politics to start his own public-relations firm...
...Britain's tabloid warfare, Lord Kemsley's prim Daily Graphic (circ. 753,537) is no match for the racy, zestful Daily Mirror (circ. 4,432,700), largest daily newspaper in the world. While the Graphic carefully minds its manners, the Mirror minds its readers with eye-catching cheesecake and lurid tabloid writing. Fleet Streeters even recall that the Graphic once cropped a picture to show only the head of a bull because Lady Kemsley protested that the entire photo would offend Graphic readers...
...distinction of having written the year's best novel went to the old master, Ernest Hemingway. His The Old Man and the Sea was a beautifully conceived, tightly written fishing story in praise of man's courage and the nobility of nature. The story appeared in LIFE (circ. 5,325,447) and was a Book-of-the-Month-Club selection; that lost Hemingway a place on the top end of the bestseller list (which is compiled from bookstore sales), but it gave him the greatest immediate audience ever reached by a serious novelist...
...newsroom of the Vancouver (B.C.) Sun (circ. 182,000), City Editor Earl Smith groused that he could not get good local stories on Page One because there were too many war stories. He thought they were overplayed. Said he: "If we ran the same Korean war story every day, no one would notice." Answered Assistant Managing Editor Hymie Koshevoy: "We'll try it." Without 'tipping off the staff, the Sun ran the same Canadian Press story for three days straight last week under the same headline: REDS BLASTED FROM VITAL KOREAN KNOB...
...reporter for Long Island's tabloid Newsday (circ. 175,000), young (25), law-abiding Don Kellerman made a proposal that surprised his wife as much as it did his managing editor. Kellerman wanted to get arrested so that he could write a series on "what happens to a youngster in his first clash with the law." This is an old journalistic stunt, but Kellerman had a new twist. Instead of going to jail with the connivance of police, the usual method used by reporters, Kellerman proposed to say nothing to the police, get himself arrested while seemingly committing...