Word: circe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Billy Rose's syndicated column, "Pitching Horseshoes," was missing last week from the New York Herald Tribune (circ. 323,661). The censored column was an open letter to the Metropolitan Opera's general manager-elect, Rudolf Bing, which most of Rose's 350 U.S. papers printed. In it, after noting that Bing had hired Soprano Kirsten Flagstad, who "entertained ... the Nazis," Rose sarcastically nominated Dr. Hjalmar Schacht as Met budget director and Frau Use Koch of Buchenwald as wardrobe mistress. The Trib's lawyers thought the Rose column smelled of libel, and the editors killed...
...remained courteously mum when only 300,000 pesos of the price was actually paid. This tactful gesture won him entree into the best Peronista circles. In recent weeks Agusti had found that Visca's newsprint squeeze was tightening uncomfortably on his independent journal Córdoba (circ. 20,000). With easy confidence he went to call on Visca at the congressional palace to straighten things...
This week the New York Times (circ. 537,216) raised its weekday price from 3? to 5?, the same as all other full-sized Manhattan newspapers. Reason: rising costs. Before it did so, the good, grey Times had cautiously tested the new price for three months in the suburbs, found no slump in circulation...
...more artifice than art, nobody was selling Editor Fleur or Publisher (and husband) Gardner Cowles short. Issue No. 2, already in the works, was much improved-cleaner and simpler layouts, bigger pictures, less prune whip and more meat. And Publisher Cowles and brother John Cowles, whose picture magazine Look (circ. 3,039,811) and news digest Quick (which claims 700,000) were doing handsomely, were prepared to underwrite Fleur's Flair for as long as necessary. The confident circulation guarantee for Flair's first year...
Breaking the story in the nearby Salem Oregon Statesman (circ. 15,798), Republican ex-Governor Charles A. Sprague last week charged M & F with trying to dictate the editorial policies of the press. He also pointed a moral: "Accusations of newspaper subservience to advertisers have been freely made in late years, particularly by left-wingers [and] New Dealers ... An incident like this plays right into [their] hands...