Word: circe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Akron's Beacon Journal (circ. 146,410 last week started a serial which will take more than ten years to complete. The serial: the full text of the Bible, Old an New Testaments, which will run in daily 200-word installments...
...fiction and in movies, if not always in fact, a good reporter can outsmart a dozen cops. Last week Hearst's San Francisco Call-Bulletin (circ. 160,271) made fiction into fact. To the Call's city desk came word that a 17-year-old girl had been found beaten to death in a clump of bushes in San Francisco's Mission Park. The staff hopped on the story and Reporter Bill Walsh soon turned up the names of the girl's boy friends...
After the confession was complete, the Call graciously admitted a reporter and photographer from Hearst's morning Examiner, but the rest of the San Francisco press had to wait. Said City Editor "Pete" Lee of the rival News (circ. 125,625): "We got thoroughly clobbered...
...Philadelphia, Bulletin (circ. 697,718) Columnist Earl Selby, 34, also played detective. A Republican politico, William F. Meade, was mysteriously shot recently in the lobby of a small Philadelphia hotel. To Democratic District Attorney Richardson Dilworth, the case was clear-cut. Meade was shot, said he, by Virginia Carroll, who was with Meade at the time, and with whom he had been "arguing and drinking." Meade insisted the shot came from outside the hotel. But Dilworth offered as evidence a bullet-shattered pane of glass which, he said, FBI tests proved "conclusively" had been broken from the inside...
...bearing on future campaigning. Ike Eisenhower carried eleven of the twelve cities (over 6,000 pop.), 138 of the 223 towns. The only city Taft won was Manchester, where he had his best organization and the all-out support of the Union Leader, New Hampshire's biggest newspaper (circ. 46,707). The Senator carried only three of the 20 places at which he stopped-Manchester, Derry and Meredith...