Word: circe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pictures of untamed Amazonian Indians for Rio's weekly picture magazine 0 Cruzeiro (circ. 350,000), Staff Photographer Jose Medeiros has made ten trips deep into the jungles of Central Brazil. On an expedition to the upper reaches of the Xingu River three weeks ago, it occurred to him that he might "do better than just bring back pictures." Two days later, he turned up in Rio with two large-as-life, fresh-from-the-jungle Camaiura Indian bucks...
...readers of Pennsylvania's Centre Daily Times (circ. 8,795), the paper's chatty "Daily Half Colyum" was as familiar a fixture as the masthead. Ever since 1925, when Arthur Ray Warnock, dean of men at the Pennsylvania State College, began his Colyum, no issue of the paper had appeared without his low-keyed, often humorous comments on everything from world problems to flower gardens. But sometimes he had come mighty close to missing a deadline...
Many an old reader felt the same way. It still was the capital's only around-the-clock daily, and its biggest (circ. 268,000). But the T-H had lost 10,000 readers in a year, while its rivals were gaining. Advertising, too, had slumped, notably local retail...
...Newspaper Guild began dickering last week for a new contract with the Los Angeles Daily News (circ. 224,239). It got some bad news. Associate Publisher Bob Smith told the Guild that staffers would get small raises, but that 53 employees (ten of them newsmen) would have to be fired to economize. He made it clear that unless the Guild agreed, the News might have to shut up shop...
...year-old woman who doesn't "like the idea of an inaccessible editor." This week, accessible Editor Littledale put out the 25th-anniversary issue (198 pages) of the monthly she had helped to found. In its quarter century, she had made prosperous Parents' the soundest, bestselling guide (circ. 1,250,000) to the care & feeding of U.S. small...