Word: circe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With these words, the left-wing Sunday Pictorial (circ. 5,093,935) joined Conservatives in asking Prime Minister Clement Attlee for a general election this fall. Tories feel they have a fresh talking point in British failure in Iran, are sure they can tip the balance of power to their side. Labor's own left wing, led by rambunctious Nye Bevan, would like a showdown before the government makes more commitments for defense at the expense of the welfare state...
When Monsignor Edward Westenberger spotted an article called "Margaret Sanger: Mother of Planned Parenthood" in the July Reader's Digest (circ. 15 million), he saw his duty and did it. As director of parochial schools of the Catholic Diocese of Green Bay, Wis., Westenberger banned the Digest from the 125 schools under his supervision. The offending article, said he, was "unpatriotic, unChristian, and vicious propaganda...
Died. Abraham Cahan, 91, author (The Rise of David Levinsky), co-founder and editor (1897-1950) of Manhattan's Jewish Daily Forward (circ. 150,000), one of the most influential foreign-language (Yiddish) papers in the U.S. At 21, because of his radical political sympathies, he left Czarist Russia for Manhattan's lower East Side. Through the columns of the Forward, he presented democratic socialism as well as lighter reading in terms that ill-educated immigrants could understand, fought to ameliorate sweatshop conditions in the garment trades, became a leading anti-Communist in the Jewish world...
...well knew the empire was ailing; in 1951's first six months, even the profits of its major newspaper operating company had shown a disturbing drop from $3,599,800 to $1,322,700, due partly to dwindling advertising in the onetime money-coining Sunday supplement American Weekly (circ...
...daily newspapers (total circ. 5,350,000); Sunday papers, including the supplement American Weekly, world's biggest (9,374,850) and eight monthly magazines in the U.S., ranging from Cosmopolitan and Good Housekeeping to American Druggist (total circ. 6 million...