Word: circe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...syndicated newspaper columnists worth printing? Before the American Society of Newspaper Editors in Washington last week, editors and columnists jumped into the ring to answer the question. Editor J. Donald Ferguson of the highly successful Milwaukee Journal (circ. 324,-268), who booted out all canned columns years ago, threw the first punch...
Last week Editor Carter got a chance to widen his influence. In booming Natchez, whose population (now 22,678) has increased 48% in a decade, a group of businessmen started the afternoon Times 2½years ago to compete with the 86-year-old Natchez Democrat (circ. 4,918). The Times almost caught up in circulation (4,513), but made so little money that the owners were glad to turn over the paper's management and sell half its stock to Hod Carter for an undisclosed figure. Publisher Carter and his 35-year-old general manager, John T. Gibson...
...Caesarean. In 1937 the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. brought out Woman's Day to plug A. & P. lines. Now the giant of the field (circ. 3.900,000), the magazine crams its 124 to 188 slick pages with national ads, moony love stories and how-to-do-it articles (samples: how to re-string pearls, build cabinets, read faster, eat on a low budget). But A. & P. takes little profit out of its Woman's Day. The cash is put into more color pages and better copy to dress up the lure for shoppers...
When the Sheen story came in over the wire last week, Editor John G. Green of the Portsmouth (Ohio) Times (circ. 25,176) did as suggested; he took out his pencil and went through his previous day's paper. In the 1,430 inches of news, headlines and pictures, he found only 149 inches devoted to crime or violence. Even this included stories (e.g., the Korean war, the Kefauver investigation) which Editor Green thought "might be considered by many readers as being moral, rather than immoral." In the non-crime news, he counted stories about penicillin, a union convention...
Next day, the Kansas City Star (circ. 364,315), which also ran the Sheen interview, did a similar job of checking up. It counted 1,535 inches of news, found only 157 inches devoted to crime and violence...