Word: circe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Deceit & Subterfuge." As thick as the argument was the smoke screen of confusion around the whole affair, which the Administration seemed determined to preserve at all costs. In 1945, Amerasia was a magazine (circ. about 2,000) devoted more or less openly to the Communist line and the Far East, and published sporadically in New York by one Philip Jaffe. The case began that February when the eyes of a Government official fell upon a surprising Amerasia article. It quoted at length and almost verbatim from a secret report which was supposed to be tucked safely away in the Office...
...reporter learns in the average city room is not to whistle, hum or sing. It's bad luck, and furthermore, it's disconcerting. But for more than two years, every 15 minutes from dawn till dark, the staid city room of the Sacramento (Calif.) Bee (circ. 114,854) has echoed to the strains of such treacly tunes as Dear Hearts & Gentle People and Because You Love Me. Miss Eleanor McClatchy, fiftyish, publisher of the Bee, wants it that way. She thinks that the music (piped in by Muzak) relaxes the Bee's workers and coaxes better copy...
...word reached the St. Louis Globe-Democrat that H. J. Blanton, 71-year-old editor of the Monroe County (Mo.) Appeal (circ. 2,996), was planning to retire. Indignantly the Globe wrote: "The newspaper [Blanton edits] is one of Missouri journalism's choice assets . . . We herewith and to his face call Jack Blanton a quitter, a fellow with a future who is deliberately passing it by to dally down the primrose path with a niblick in one hand, a fishpole in the other...
This spring, at 80, Editor Blanton of Paris, Mo. (pop. 1,388) took on a new chore: a twice-a-week column of reminiscences for the Globe-Democrat (circ. 293,404). By last week, Blanton's nostalgic, witty and folk-wise column was bringing in more reader mail than almost any other Globe-Democrat department. This new success did not surprise Jack Blanton. Says he: "City people, down underneath, are just like rural folks. You run a Tom, Dick and Harry paper, like I have for 60 years, and you begin to see it's the warm...
When Roy Howard moved into Birmingham, Ala. by founding the evening Post (circ. 69,963) in 1921, he did so with all the assurance of Grant in the siege of Richmond. But he found his local competition no demoralized Confederate Army. The morning Age-Herald (circ. 45,804) and the evening News (circ. 166,017), both published by C. B. Hanson Jr., made things so hot for Howard that last week he beat a strategic retreat. He folded the money-losing Post, and signed up as junior partner with the opposition (which folded the Age-Herald) in a new combined...