Word: circe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House Un-American Activities Committee appeared Charles W. Judson, 42. He freely admitted that, under the party alias of "Peter Steele," he had been a member of the Communist Party from 1937 to 1941 at the same time he was city editor of the Los Angeles Daily News (circ. 209,000). Judson, now senior associate editor of California's Fortnight magazine and a militant antiCommunist, named 16 others as members of the party's Newspaper Unit No. 140 during the same period. Among them: Tom O'Connor,* later a writer on Manhattan...
...Yorker himself, Shawn was born on Chicago's South Side, the son of a cutlery dealer. After two years at the University of Michigan and three months as reporter on the Las Vegas (N. Mex.) Optic (present circ. 4,613), Shawn got-married, settled in Chicago and freelanced. But in New Mexico he had seen The New Yorker and had become "infatuated with it." He went to New York in 1932, planning to write a book about the magazine. Instead, he landed a job as a reporter for "Talk of the Town...
Before Adolf Hitler came to power, Berlin's house of Ullstein was the biggest, wealthiest publishing company in Europe. It published Germany's biggest newspaper, the Berliner Morgenpost (circ. 600,000), its biggest illustrated magazine, the famed Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung (circ. 2,000,000), and its most influential weekly, the Grüne Post (circ. 1,000,000). The House of Ullstein also published three other Berlin daily newspapers, two weeklies, ten monthlies and some 2,000,000 books a year. Its headquarters occupied a city block along Berlin's Kochstrasse, and it employed 10,000 workers...
...rough it build their homes and swimming pools amid the rocks and woods of Hollywood Hills, an area just north of Hollywood. There, deer, skunks, possum and even rattlesnakes are often seen. To complete the illusion of country life, almost everybody in Hollywood Hills reads the Canyon Crier (circ. 6,500), a fortnightly tabloid which one admirer calls "a New Yorker with its shoes off." For its pheasant-under-glass audience, the homey Crier dishes up an oatmeal fare. It treats everybody in Hollywood Hills as if they were small-town neighbors. The Crier reports their most trivial doings...
...papers in his empire, the late William Randolph Hearst was fondest of the San Francisco morning Examiner (circ. 225.000). Beyond being the No. 1 paper in San Francisco, it has long been the best in the Hearst chain, and The Chief gave it a measure of freedom that he granted to no other. The man who won and well used his independence: Publisher Clarence Richard Lindner, who was as different from most Hearst executives as the Examiner is from other Hearstpapers...