Word: circe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seven weeks, 500 striking members of the C.I.O. American Newspaper Guild had kept Roy Howard's New York World-Telegram & Sun (circ. 612,468) from publishing so much as a single edition. The strikers were backed by upwards of 1,000 craft employees. Some 100 nonstriking editorial and commercial employees continued to report for work every day. Early one morning this week, Editor Howard decided to take a drastic step. Howard locked up the plant. Whether the lockout would stick or not was another question and only Roy Howard knew the answer...
...picket line at Scripps-Howard's New York World-Telegram & Sun, Reporter Joan Gahan, 24, had worn out three pairs of shoes. Last week, as she has done since the C.I.O. Newspaper Guild's strike began at the third biggest evening newspaper in the U.S. (circ. 612,468), Newshen Gahan took her two-hour daily turn. As the pickets ambled in circles at the newspaper's three entrances, some worked puzzles, read papers, or played "20 Questions...
There were exceptions: Hearst's tabloid Boston Daily Record, New England's biggest (circ. 383,574), shouted: EXTRA...
...after the North Korean Reds invaded South Korea (TIME, July 3), Editor Wesley Izzard of the Amarillo, Texas Globe & News (circ. 60,079) jeered at the Truman Administration for its indecisive policy in the Far East. Wrote Izzard: "Will we go to war over Korea? Not now. Maybe later-many years from now. You see, Russia plans her moves knowing [that we will merely] issue protests and adopt resolutions [while] the Reds will move right along . . ." But the next day, when President Truman ordered U.S. military aid to the South Koreans, astonished Editor Izzard stood up and cheered: "Today...
Extra, Extra. All over, newspaper circulations soared. In Dallas, the Times-Herald (circ. 140,534) doubled its street sales in one afternoon. Portland's Oregon Journal (circ. 190,844) put out a daily extra, increased its sales by 35,000 copies for the week. (The Journal's copy desk also invented a more convenient headline word to describe the North Korean Communists: KO-REDS.) Though newspapers quickly took on their old wartime look with Page One photos of General MacArthur, B-29s and tanks, and the first casualty lists, most of the U.S. press followed Harry Truman...