Word: circe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surprising news he had heard only the afternoon before. Then he sat down and wrote the news for Page One, took the story to the composing room himself. Composing Room Superintendent Earl Barker read it and gasped: the Star-Times had been sold to the rival Post-Dispatch (circ. 290,052), would publish no more after that afternoon's press...
Post-Dispatch Publisher Joseph Pulitzer had bought the Star-Times's name, linotypes, presses, newsprint and circulation (179,803) to gain a monopoly in the afternoon field, leave St. Louis with only one other daily newspaper, the thriving morning Globe-Democrat (circ. 282,611). Reported price: between $3,500,000 and $8,000,000. The downtown five-story Star-Times building was not included in the deal; neither was the paper's ABC radio outlet, KXOK, or its FM affiliate. Star-Times Publisher Elzey Roberts had sold out because "material costs have risen faster than the increased revenues...
...reporter and later city editor for the Atlanta Journal (circ. 250,095), Bob Collins was a crusading young newsman who never let go of a story until he got official action. Example: after the war, he wrote two long series exposing Army waste in Georgia that resulted in two congressional investigations, got the practices stopped. Six months ago, Journalist Collins, 34, got a new job as Journal editorial writer and columnist. Instead of retiring into an ivory tower, he went right on crusading, though often in such minor-and popular -causes as the lack of courtesy among bus drivers. This...
...city editor of Oklahoma City's Daily Oklahoman read a Page One feature story in the Times, the Oklahoman's afternoon sister-paper, and smelled a "helluva good story." The Times (circ. 114,870) told about an elderly couple whose little country home had been sold at a public sale for $1.13 because they owed that much in taxes-which they didn't even know about. City Editor , Ralph Sewell showed the clip to Reporter Bill Van Dyke. "Bill," said he, "they didn't name the so-and-so who got the property...
...real-estate dealer, but a story that went on making local headlines right up to its payoff last week. The dealer was one R. W. Garrett, who hurriedly decided to let the elderly couple have their property back for $55 plus $3.13 "expenses," if only the Oklakoman (circ. 143,894) wouldn't print his name. "This sort of thing happens every day," Garrett protested. "It's not my fault the sheriff didn't serve them notice." The Oklahoman printed Garrett's name, then joined forces with the Times to search through county records...