Word: circe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Like some Englishmen, Americans have long looked on Punch's quiet brand of British fun with blank amazement. But since the war, Punch has been trying to broaden its audience (TIME, June 2, 1947). Now, to prove that even U.S. readers can laugh at today's Punch (circ. 136,537), its editors have authorized a collection of The Best Cartoons from Punch (Simon & Schuster; $3) and are listening for the roars...
Last week Publisher McCarthy ran into more trouble. With its regular Wednesday edition, Jesse Jones's big (circ. 183,000) Houston Chronicle issued five special sections, crammed with McCarthy-style news and aimed at the various Houston neighborhoods covered by the Citizen. The Chronicle's new weekly sections, each with a staff of its own, were the Jones answer to the circulation and advertising inroads made by McCarthy and by Scripps-Howard's Press (circ. 114,346) and Oveta Culp Hobby's Post (circ. 170,000). Glenn professed no surprise at the Chronicle move, said Jones...
Following a funeral for five guerrilla-slain policemen, some 200 well-coached civilian "rioters" sacked and burned the headquarters of two Liberal newspapers, one of them El Tiempo (circ. 180,000), Latin America's most distinguished newspaper since the destruction of Buenos Aires' La Prensa. The attackers destroyed the newspaper's advertising and circulation records, wrecked its oak-paneled editorial offices and gutted its pressroom...
Even in West Virginia's Kanawha County, where corrupt elections are no surprise, the primary last May was a standout. The minute the Charleston Gazette (circ. 86,500) saw the returns, it smelled fraud. Many precincts in the capital's county showed a far heavier vote than could be expected from the size of the registrations. City Editor Harry G. Hoffman set two reporters, Charles R. Armentrout and James A. Hill, to work looking for the buried bodies...
...Middle East correspondent for the Ullstein publications of Germany. Ullstein soon sent him to Paris, then yanked him back to Berlin to become, at 25, science editor of an Ullstein newspaper. By the next year, he was also doubling as foreign editor of another, the B.Z, am Mittag (circ...