Word: circe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newspapers as firmly as sugar cane; Meanwhile Stern's heavy investments in a bigger staff and a new Sunday edition failed to make the expected handsome payoff: in recent weeks, Stern fired or dropped 13 staffers, was reportedly losing heavily on his Sunday paper. Last week the Item (circ. 99,658) got a helping hand against the Times-Pic (circ. 180,584) and the States (circ. 99,339) from an outside party: the U.S. Government...
...deadline for the strike was set for 5:30 a.m. one day last week. Yet, after three months of negotiating, neither the New York World-Telegram and Sun, biggest (circ. 600,000) newspaper in the Scripps-Howard chain, nor the C.I.O. American Newspaper Guild had entirely given up hope of averting it. For much of the night before the deadline, they had both wrangled over their "final offers." Then they wearily stopped negotiating...
...Liberty magazine one morning last week, veteran Fiction Editor Elsie Christie dropped in to Editor John Danby's office to regale him with a rumor she had just heard: Liberty (circ. 1,096,987) was being sold to "one of those awful girlie books." Recalled Danby: "We both agreed that that was the most unlikely thing in the world." Two days later, Publisher Osborne Bond called in Editor Danby, Miss Christie and most of his 40 other staffers and fired them. Reason: Liberty was closing down. Liberty's name and good will had been sold to Lawrence Holmes...
...column newspaper ads to compliment itself on attaining a circulation of 850,000, although it was still in & out of the red from week to week. The Cowles brothers' dehydrated news and picture weekly (4 by 6 in.) got a more spontaneous form of flattery last week: Newsweek (circ. 805,461) launched an experimental Quick-sized imitation called People Today. Its editor: Allen Chellas, 39, an alumnus of Parade and Holiday...
...governor of Louisiana, Huey P. Long liked to boast that he could buy & sell legislators "like sacks of potatoes." As far as the New Orleans Item (circ. 96,000) is concerned, things are not much different under Governor Earl Long, Huey's brother. Last week, when a legislative committee voted one way on a tax bill, then flip-flopped when the order came down from Governor Long, the Item sourly commented: "The large majority of our distinguished Senators and Representatives have about as much independence as trained seals. When their trainer barks, they jump...