Word: circe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vest-pocket chart which lists the calories in popular foods. The demand for the chart was so heavy (total: 87,596) that the News bannered the series on Page One. By last week, the Fat Boy had spread to 77 daily newspapers ranging from the North Bay (Ont.) Nugget (circ. 10,217) to the New York Journal-American (circ. 724,729) The Journal gave Elmer eight-column headlines on Page One, appointed its fattest reporter, 243-lb. Syd Livingston, to provide local color stories. (He refused to go on the diet himself.) Promotion Manager Ed Templin of the Lexington...
...left his home town of McMinnville, Tenn. eight years ago. He won a Navy V12 scholarship, got one of the few Navy commissions given to Negroes, took a master's degree at the University of Minnesota and went to work as a reporter for the Minneapolis morning Tribune (circ. 185,500). Two months ago, Newshawk Rowan persuaded his editor to let him make a 6,000-mile tour by bus, train and rented cars of 13 Southern states for a series of stories. Last week, the Tribune began front-paging a perceptive, well-written series on segregation and prejudice...
Kingsley Martin, anti-American editor of Britain's pinko New Statesman and Nation (circ. 87,156), frequently writes as though the U.S., not Russia, is pushing the world toward atomic war. When Editor Martin heard U.S. Columnist Stewart Alsop assure Britain on a BBC program that "a certain left-wing British magazine," i.e., the New Statesman, was all wrong in any such interpretation of U.S. policy, Martin's feathers ruffled...
Died. William James Conners Jr., 55, publisher of the Buffalo Courier-Express (circ. 149,465), which he took over from his father in 1919; of a heart attack; in Buffalo...
...Portland, Ore. knows as Mr. Mac marches into the First National Bank, seats himself at the desk tagged Chairman of the Board and settles to work. At 10:30, Chairman Ernest Boyd MacNaughton marches out again and takes over his second desk as president of the Portland Oregonian (circ. 224,314). Finally, after a quick lunch at "a grab and grunt stand," Mr. Mac heads for his third and favorite job-president of Reed College (enrollment...