Word: circe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Amon Carter Jr., 32, son of the publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram (circ. 232,861), stepped into the job he had been groomed for during the past 20 years. A paper-tosser with a regular route at eleven, he moved up to office boy, then staff photographer (as a tank commander in North Africa, he was captured, held prisoner by the Germans for 27 months). Later he sold advertising, was promoted to advertising manager and member of the board of directors of the company. Last week he was named president of the company, and Amon Sr. moved...
...science-and-medicine reporter for Hearst's Chicago Herald-American (circ. 522,005), Hugh S. Stewart, 59, was a cautious, low-keyed newsman. In his seven years on a staff that works for the gaudy effect, he seldom wrote a sensational story. But last August he hustled in with a tip that stirred up the city room. Stewart said he had located a woman who was going to give birth to sextuplets later in the month or early in September. Two other papers were about ready to break the story. "I can't even reveal my sources...
Nash, who owns a cranberry bog in McCarthy's own Wisconsin and was once a lecturer in anthropology at the University of Toronto, made a quick reply: "A contemptible lie." McCarthy, he said, apparently was stung by an anti-McCarthy ad in the Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune (circ. 7,952), signed by a group of citizens including Nash's sister, Jean...
When readers picked up their copies of the Saturday Evening Post this week, they hardly recognized the magazine. For the first time since 1899, the Post (circ. 3,998,158) had no picture on its cover. Instead, it carried an announcement of "One of the Great Books of Our Time: Whittaker Chambers' Own Story of the Hiss Case." The Post thought Chambers' Witness so important that it had paid $75,000 for serial rights to the book, due to be published in May and already a Book-of-the-Month Club choice. The Post, which calls its series...
Leopold Ullstein, a Jewish paper dealer, had started the company in 1877 when he bought the money-losing Neue Berliner Tageblatt (circ. 4,000). He put it on its feet, bought other moribund newspapers and kept expanding. After his death in 1899, his five sons-Hans, Louis, Franz, Rudolf, Hermann-proved equally shrewd, expanded more. They made one big mistake: they thought Adolf Hitler's Jew-baiting was merely campaign oratory. When they still had time to turn the tremendous power of their newspapers and magazines against the rise of Naziism, the Ullstein brothers did nothing. When Hitler came...