Word: circe
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Wide Publicity. Recently the government took over the placing of all employment want ads, thereby shrinking one of the substantial revenue sources of both papers. So far, La Prensa (circ. 460,000) and La Natión (circ. 250,000) have managed to survive. But La Prensa has been whittled down from a fat 32 pages to a sick twelve by the Peron campaign...
When John H. Johnson, a young Negro publicity man in Chicago, borrowed $500 to start a new magazine, he took a successful model: the Reader's Digest (circ. about 9,000,000). But Johnson's Negro Digest, launched in 1942, was edited exclusively for Negroes. By culling other magazines for thoughtful articles about Negroes and their problems, and running original pieces by such writers as Hodding Carter, Johnson gave his Digest a sober, conscientious tone that was new to the generally sensational, often irresponsible Negro press. By 1945, Digest was such a success that Johnson started Ebony...
Although the down-to-earth picture occasionally contained such flagrant reader-catchers as "What I told Kinsey" (by a young Negro schoolmarm), it was generally a lively, well-edited presentation of Negro life. With Digest (circ. 115,025) and Ebony (circ. 350,000), Johnson became the leading U.S. Negro publisher...
Nevertheless, Asahi (circ. 3,610,209) liked the story so well that it gave Nagaoka one of its rare bylines and spread the adventure across Page Two (Asahi's top spot for "sensational" news). Not so impressed were Kobe's police. They went over the story again & again with Police Reporter Nagaoka, each time noting discrepancies. Finally, Nagaoka broke down and confessed: the whole story was a hoax...
Died. Curtis Boyd Johnson, 74, since 1916 publisher and principal owner of the Charlotte Observer, which he made the biggest daily (circ. 135,000) in the Carolinas; in Charlotte...