Word: circe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan, Kans. (pop. 18,900), readers of the devoutly Republican Mercury-Chronicle (circ. 5,445) got a surprise last week when they turned to the editorial page. The Mercury-Chronicle, which for years had consistently supported old-guard Republicans, was flatly declaring that "the old GOPers haven't had a constructive idea in 20 years. They are afraid to vote against the social program of the Democrats because they think the people want it . . . It is no wonder the people are becoming disgusted with both major parties." The solution: a third party "with a good program" that would push...
Alice in Wonderland. The Post's charges were duplicated in London's more flamboyant papers, always alert for a sensation. In a front-page article, the tabloid Daily Mirror (circ. 4,500,000) flatly charged that "the world is not getting the truth" about the war. The reason, wrote Mirror Correspondent Davis Walker, a veteran World War II reporter, was due to the "dreadfully distorted" news coming from "Alice-in-Wonderland information handed out at high level...
...Jones & Co., Inc., owner of the paper, and worked to expand W.S.J. into a national newspaper for businessmen. This week, with thriving editions in Dallas and San Francisco as well as Manhattan, 42-year-old Barney Kilgore moved into the Midwest. Dow Jones bought the Chicago Journal of Commerce (circ. 33,960) from Bernard J. Ridder (who also publishes the New York Journal of Commerce). Price: well over the $1,250,000 Ridder paid...
...committee was not there to take Tampa's winter sun; it was in Florida to investigate reports that Tampa was the center of a crime syndicate that ran a dope-smuggling ring and a lottery with a take of $20 million a year. For the Tampa Tribune (circ. 101,051), the committee's arrival was a fine acknowledgment of the paper's three-year-old crusade against Florida crime. In the course of its campaign, the Tribune had toppled four state officials from office, helped bring some 50 gamblers to court, and with the help of other...
...circulation (187,369) and advertising (20,521,756 lines for the first eleven months of 1950) still lag behind the round-the-clock Times-Herald (circ. 275,314, advertising, 21,042,854 lines) and the conservative, workmanlike afternoon Star (circ. 223,547, advertising 34,039,026 lines...