Word: circe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the adless Reader's Digest (U.S. circ. over 8,000,000) started its international editions in 1938, Editor DeWitt Wallace soon hit a snag. At 25?, the world's biggest magazine was too expensive for the mass of readers in most foreign countries. Beginning with the Spanish-language edition in 1940, Wallace cut the price and began carrying advertising in his international editions. Circulation and advertising rose steadily, but so did production costs, and the 24 foreign editions in eleven languages, with a circulation of 6,300,000, continued in the red. Last week, on the tenth...
...Voice of Moscow in the U.S., New York's Communist Daily Worker (circ. 23,400) has caused many an anti-Communist American to wonder if it is entitled to all the privileges of a free press. Last week the executive board of New York's Newsdealers Association, whose members run the city's newsstands, decided that the Worker was not. The board voted to bar the Worker from newsstands and asked the association's members to approve the proposal...
Thus pale, frail, one-eyed Carl Giles, 36, famed cartoonist for Lord Beaverbrook's London Daily Express (circ. 4,222,000) describes himself in a book of his cartoons just published by the Express. But most Fleet-Streeters-and Express readers-would describe Giles more simply as, next to David Low, the best cartoonist in Britain. Even Americans, often baffled by British humor, think Giles is funny, and his cartoons now appear in 22 Canadian and eight U.S. newspapers...
...Thanksgiving Eve, the staff of Alicia Patterson's scrappy, prosperous (circ. 130,000) Long Island tabloid, Newsday, was well scattered, and the plant at Garden City was shut down. The paper planned to stay closed over the holiday. Then Reporter Bob Hollingsworth, who had stopped in a bar for a drink on his way home, caught a radio news bulletin. There had been a disastrous wreck on the Long Island Rail Road (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Hollingsworth tried frantically to locate Managing Editor Alan Hathway by phone, made four calls before he ran him down having dinner in a Chinese...
Readers of the Dallas News (circ. 163,212) sometimes wonder whether they have a symphony orchestra, civic theater and a dozen other cultural organizations for them to enjoy, or just to give the News's Amusements Editor John Rosenfield something to write about. The fact is that culture in Dallas has blossomed like a rose on the dry plains of the Southwest, thanks largely to Rosenfield. A secondary result is that his column and reviews are among the best-read of News features...