Word: circe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Until three months ago, few valley Texans had ever heard of Hoiles. Then, for $2,000,000, his Freedom Newspapers Inc. bought the three main valley dailies-the Brownsville Herald, Harlingen's Morning Star and McAllen's Evening Monitor (total circ. 37,500). From his Santa Ana, Calif, headquarters, old "R.C." himself rode into the valley on a bus to reshape the papers according to Hoiles. He threw out Drew Pearson's column, replaced him with Fulton Lewis, George Sokolsky, and his own column. His favorite campaign: a bitter, continuous assault on public schools on the ground...
...France and Belgium, the Sélection du Reader's Digest is the biggest (936,070) of all monthlies. In Sweden, Det Bästa ur Readers Digest (circ. 268,184) is the biggest monthly, as Selezione dal Reader's Digest is in Italy and Valitut Palat koon-nut Reader's Digest is in Finland. The Portuguese-and Spanish-language Digests are tops all over the continent of South America; the Japanese edition is now 651,000. The Digest is printed in eleven languages, read in 58 nations. In the U.S., 31,000 U.S. blind read...
Seven Wonders. In Fifty Years of Popular Mechanics (Simon & Schuster, $5), the present editors of the magazine (circ. 1,169,645) cock an uncritical eye at a half-century of publication, which reflects their nostalgic concern for the changing gadgetry of the years. The editors may have been slow to spot the Wright brothers, but by 1909 one of the first of a long line of build-it-yourself articles had Popular Mechanics readers constructing their own "gliding machine." Three years later, after polling 1,000 scientists, the magazine listed the Seven Wonders of the Modern World: "wireless, telephone, aeroplane...
Visiting in Montreal last week, Lord Beaverbrook, 72, gave some depressing figures on the present-day economics of publishing in Britain. Of some $2,200,000 which his Daily Express (circ. 4,200,000) earned last year, the government took $1,400,000 in taxes before dividends, then collected all but sixpence on every pound paid to stockholders. Beaverbrook, who owns nearly three-fourths of the stock, ended up with $16,800 for his pains...
...picture came to the Ashland (Ky.) Daily Independent (circ. 15,512) last August from Mrs. G. E. Dobbins, a reader. It showed two bombers flying in a cloudy sky. Clear as could be in the foreground was a likeness of Christ, hands outstretched in a gesture of peace...