Word: circe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Although relations between India and Pakistan have greatly improved, each country is still quick to take offense at criticism by its neighbor's press. Last fortnight India's New Delhi-Calcutta Statesman (circ. 80,000) ran a report about poisoned fish in the rivers of East Bengal, now part of Pakistan. Said the Statesman: "We hear [that] 75% of the [East Bengal] population have .. . ceased to take fish for fear of being poisoned and are meanwhile doing poojah [prayers] to their gods to see if haply this scourge may be removed. We should be more pleased to hear...
...powerful as Juan Perón is in Argentina, he has not dared to shut down critical La Prensa (circ. 400,000) outright. But he has used the newsprint rationing to take paper from La Prensa and give it to his friends. He also exercises a censorship on outgoing cables, has delayed stories and even arrested U.S. newsmen. Fortnight ago, responding to U.S. criticism, Perón kicked out his press purger, José Emilio Visca (TIME, June 12) ; but it was too soon to say whether that represented a change of policy or just a change of faces...
...Kewanna, Ind. weekly Observer (circ. 750), Publisher Bill Lyon ran this Page One notice: "The office of the Observer will be closed June 3 due to good fishing conditions. The office door will be left open and paper and pencil will be on the counter for accommodation of patrons who wish to leave news items...
...coming 5? tabloid Mirror, which claims its circulation has risen from 161,188 to 193,924 in the last six months, plumped in favor of the ordinance. But Hearst's Herald & Express (circ. 348,543), figuring that the law might cost it some 12,000 daily street sales, denounced the whole thing as just a Mirror plot...
...enrolled in the University of Nebraska's School of Journalism under the G.I. bill. This week Kuroki's class will graduate, but Ben will get his degree by mail. He left school about three weeks ago; with borrowed money, he had bought the York (Neb.) Republican (circ. 2,000) from venerable (73) Publisher Joseph Alden, a descendant of John & Priscilla...