Word: circe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nobody knows, it is what to do about it. On Capitol Hill, the working political assumption is that the farmer wants handouts, handouts and more handouts. Yet anyone who takes the trouble to ask the farmer himself is likely to get some startlingly different answers. Last week the big (circ. 3,100,000) Farm Journal announced the most remarkable results yet of a farm poll. The Journal asked its subscribers to vote on whether they wanted 1) more support, 2) less support, or 3) no support at all. Results: of the first 10,000 replies, fully 78% were for lower...
...Done. The two Canadians-George G. Dingman Jr., 34, whose father publishes the reputable Times-Journal (circ. 10,720) of St. Thomas, Ont., and a sometime salesman named Joseph Dyson-worked out of London, Ont. To milk the contests, they set up a nonexistent newspaper, rented a post-office box for a nonexistent bank. Then they solicited two of the several U.S. syndicates that peddle prize contests to newspapers and that insist on sending solutions, as a precaution, to banks (or some other unimpeachable agency). In due time the phony newspaper began receiving the puzzles-and the phony bank began...
...aides gingerly gave out less information than was in the Times's original stories. Badgered by the press, Quarles took the surprising stand that full material on the now public story would have to be released only "through normal scientific channels" (e.g., learned journals like the Physical Review, circ. 10,530). Snapped Quarles about the clean-handed beat of Baldwin and Sullivan: "I would say it was not playing the game with the Defense Department the way I would like it played...
Word from the Sponsor. Noted, after seven months, was the fact that Pennsylvania's Democratic Congressman Daniel J. Flood got printed in the appendix of the Aug. 21 Congressional Record (circ. 42,400) a lengthy advertisement for Diplomat cigarettes (manufactured in Wilkes-Barre). Last week, after his fellow Congressmen began receiving "reprints" courtesy of the manufacturer, nonsmoking Daniel Flood allowed as he had no objection to use of the Record to reprint ads: "I see nothing wrong...
Promptly at 3 o'clock one afternoon last week, Ernest Joiner, 47, editor of the weekly Ralls, Texas Banner (circ. 1,175), planted a cigar beneath his mustache, wrapped a grimy printer's apron about his waist and flipped the switch on the old flatbed press. As the first ink-wet copies of the Banner began to roll, it seemed much like the press run of any of thousands of other small-town U.S. papers. It wasn't. If last week's edition ran true to form, Editor Joiner's own column in the Banner...