Word: circe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, tall, solemn Jimmy Lewis and his chief lieutenant, wisecracking little Jimmy Radeck, 13, flew to the capital at the expense of the St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch (combined circ. 207,784) to get a pat on the back from G-Man J. Edgar Hoover himself...
...foulest piece of journalism perpetrated in [Britain] for many a long year-and that is certainly saying something . . ." The caustic editorialist was Michael Foot, 37, wiry, wily Laborite M.P., co-editor of the Socialist weekly Tribune (circ. 20,000) and onetime acting editor of Lord Beaverbrook's Tory London Evening Standard. What had roused Foot's wrath was the way the Standard (circ. 871,000) had handled John Strachey's appointment as Secretary of State for War (TIME, March...
...weeks ago, Atlanta's Forsyth Street at once became the scene of a spectacular elephant hunt. On Forsyth Street stand the modern plants of the morning Atlanta Constitution and its evening rival, the Atlanta Journal. Coca had barely stopped kicking when the Journal, biggest paper in the South (circ. 245,033), launched a Page One campaign to collect enough nickels, dimes and dollars from Atlanta's bereaved youngsters to buy a new elephant. The Constitution (circ. 180,948) in turn exhorted the kiddies to contribute to its own elephant fund...
...chatty fashion of country weeklies everywhere, the Capac, Mich. Journal (circ. 750) noted last week that "Herbert Gottschalk is some improved," "Miss Vera Reynolds is spending a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Sharrad," and "Robert McCoy is driving a new Chevrolet." Along with this gossip about the placid life of the prosperous little farm community (pop. 1,200), was one item of more than ordinary interest: "Mr. and Mrs. N. A. Hunter have planned to hold open house for Noble Hunter, Sunday afternoon ... at their home, 209 Aldrich Avenue. Mr. Hunter will be 93 years of age Saturday...
...Sporting News (circ. 219,545), the baseball fan's bible, took a mighty cut at the ball last week and fell into the water bucket. "Because sports are nonpolitical in nature," declaimed the dead-serious News, "no censor hobbles sportcasters . . . [But in] parlous times ... it behooves us to know who are working at the microphones and whether they . . . might be subversive or convert themselves into mediums of communication for an enemy that might strike overnight." Not pointing "the finger of suspicion," the Sporting News nevertheless recommended: since labor leaders, scientists and teachers get loyalty tests, why not sportcasters...