Word: circe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, in cocktail bars from Boston to San Bernardino, true believers renewed their faith, for they had a notable recruit: David Lawrence's U.S. News and World Report (circ. 365,492). A news magazine with a reputation for sobriety and conservatism, U.S. News devoted three pages to a story and pictures headlined FLYING
Last week AEC decided that one press enterprise had overstepped the danger line. It ordered the monthly Scientific American (circ. 78,878) to delete four technical paragraphs in a 5,000-word article on the hydrogen bomb by Dr. Hans A. Bethe, Cornell physicist and wartime chief of theoretical physics at the Los Alamos laboratory. Although the April issue containing the article had already gone to press, AEC summarily "requested" the presses stopped-the first time it had taken such a drastic step. It burned 3,000 copies already run off, melted down the type and impounded every galley proof...
...wanted" list last week. He was Orba Elmer Jackson, 43, who had been serving a 25-year term for robbing a Missouri post office and brutally beating up the postmaster. When Jackson was captured on an Oregon ranch after an I.N.S. story about him appeared in the Portland Oregonian (circ. 214,916), I.N.S. gave itself a cross-country pat on the back and the Portland paper crowed: OREGONIAN STORY AID TO CAPTURE. The fact: the tip that led to Jackson's capture came to the FBI four days before the I.N.S. story appeared in the Oregonian...
...does the glass-winged butterfly have transparent wings? Where is the sole nesting ground of the Kirtland's warbler? This week, amateur and professional nature-lovers, from John Kieran to Herbert Hoover, could find the answers* to such questions in the 50th Anniversary issue of Natural History (circ. 40,000), the official magazine of the biggest natural history museum...
...anti-Fair Deal Miami Herald (circ. 159,067) leaned over backwards to give President Truman a fair deal as he vacationed in Key West (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). In his weekly "Editor's Notebook" column, Publisher John S. Knight wrote: "During previous vacations at Key West, you have thought the 'Editor's Notebook' was unnecessarily critical of presidential actions and decisions. In other words, when a fellow's on a holiday, he doesn't like to have his breakfast spoiled by reading uncomplimentary editorials . . . I think I understand how you feel, Mr. President...