Word: circe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even headline-hardened readers of Hearst's Los Angeles Herald & Express (circ. 305,056) were astonished last week by the seven-column streamer: LINK MARGARET TRUMAN-ADLAI IN ROMANCE...
When Grand Union heard about the story, it ordered Wechsler banned from future programs, refused to discuss the matter with him. But last week other members of the panel had plenty to say. One of them was Alicia Patterson, publisher of Long Island's Newsday (circ. 138,957), daughter of the late great New York Daily Newsman, Joe Patterson, and kin of the Chicago Tribune. She refused to appear on the program unless she was allowed to condemn Grand Union's action over TV. There she said: "A dreadful mistake ... I rarely agree with the opinions...
...publishers of the largest and best string of newspapers and magazines in the Middle East, big (238 Ib.) Mustafa Amin and his identical (238 Ib.) twin brother Ali have rightly earned a reputation for being vigorous democrats and courageous reformers. Their weekly Akhbar el Yom (News of the Day-circ. 150,000) and five other publications hammer at government corruption. Yet just before dawn one day last week, eight Egyptian army officers armed with Tommy guns and acting in the name of reform swooped down on the brothers' Cairo home and arrested them. Readers of their papers were astounded...
...worth, and there's a limit to how far you'll go to hold on to something." Last week the Ridders were in a buying mood. Into booming San Jose, Calif, they went to take over the San Jose evening News and morning Mercury (total circ. 72,000) for a reported price of $3,700,000 from the newspapers' present owners...
...publishers had trouble expanding their circulation staff fast enough. Last week the editors announced that circulation had passed 600,000, to make Presbyterian Life far & away the best-selling Protestant religious magazine in the world. Nearest rival: the interdenominational Christian Herald (375,000). Among Roman Catholic periodicals, only Columbia (circ. 768,000) is larger...