Word: circe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doggedly isolationist New York Daily News, the nation's biggest newspaper (circ. 2,251,430), surprised nobody by endorsing Taft as the man who can "start this country toward salvation from the Fascism and Socialism of Truman's misnamed Fair Deal." The News's candidate for Vice President: Dwight Eisenhower...
With the 121-year-old morning daily, Financier Fox not only bought a hoary tradition, but the weirdest-looking Page One in the U.S. The Post (circ. 306,383) averages as many as 20 stories on the front page, most of them under headlines that look as if they had been made up with a shotgun. But with it Fox also got a paper which is second biggest in New England, has made plenty of money in the past, when it often outshone all its rivals for enterprise, high jinks and beats...
Ever since Publisher Hank Greenspun, 42, bought the Las Vegas Sun (circ. 8,500) in 1950, the. paper has been scowling at Nevada's Democratic Senator Pat McCarran and old Pat has been glaring right back. Two months ago their feud turned up in court. The Sun sued McCarran and 51 others, including the owners of Las Vegas' leading gambling houses, for $1,000,000. The charge: McCarran had persuaded the local gamblers to yank $8,000 a month in advertising from the paper after the Sun printed attacks against him. The gamblers denied the charge. Last week...
...Last week at 51, Sir William Haley, now director general of the British Broadcasting Corp., got ready to go to work for the Times again, this time as editor. Named to the top editorial spot in British journalism and the first titled editor ever to run the venerable Times (circ. 231,659), Sir William takes the place of William F. Casey, 68, who, after four years in the editor's chair and four decades on the paper, is resigning because of poor health...
...newspaper market. For his part, Times-Star Publisher Hulbert Taft, 74-year-old cousin of Senator Bob Taft (who owns a 5% interest in the paper), knew he was getting a good buy. The Enquirer is not only Cincinnati's biggest and most prosperous daily (circ. 185,283); it is also the city's only morning and Sunday paper. But the Tafts ran into unexpected opposition. The Enquirer's staffers, vigorously opposing the sale, decided to buy the paper themselves...