Word: circe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brightest properties in the nation: the Baltimore Sunpapers, which thrive on civic crusades and solid, sober news coverage (six foreign correspondents, a nine-man Washington bureau). Newhouse has offered to buy between 51% and 70% of the stock of A. S. Abell Co., which owns the three papers (morning circ. 196,725; evening circ. 214,938; Sunday circ. 317,648), plus the Sun's TV station WMAR. Estimated price for 51% control: $20 million. So eager is Publisher Newhouse to get the prestigious Sunpapers that he might be willing to plunk down more than $40 million for the whole...
...Times-Star was journalism's second major loss in the space of a single week. Only a few days before, rising costs and lagging ad sales had forced Publisher David Stern III to sell the afternoon New Orleans Item (circ. 101,604) to the Times-Picayune Publishing Co., which owns both the morning Times-Picayune (circ. 189,758) and the afternoon States (circ. 101,916). Contributing to the 81-year-old Item's failure: the "unit" ad rate of the Times-Picayune and States, which forced national and classified advertisers to take space in both papers, or neither...
...Centralization.' " The sale (at an undisclosed figure) means that solid Cincinnati will have to read Scripps-Howard. But Scripps-Howard President Jack Howard, 47, insists that the morning Enquirer (circ. 205,461) will be free to compete as it likes against the new afternoon Post and Times-Star (first press run: 318,000). "There will be no 'centralization' of editorial policies," said Howard. "Down in Memphis, where we own the Commercial Appeal and the Press-Scimitar, it seems our people hardly speak to each other. They're ruggedly competitive...
Only nonstruck major Philadelphia paper was the Daily News (circ. 191,666) of Walter H. Annenberg's Triangle Publications, which also owns the Inquirer. The News was standing steady at its normal press run. refusing to take any extra ads, and discreetly printing almost nothing about the strike...
...column; leaden propaganda handouts in the form of "news" stories weigh down the front page. But in Communist China, nearly everyone who is anyone reads the People's Daily of Peking-and for good reason. As the official organ of both party and government. the eight-page daily (circ. 700,000) is handbook and scripture to right-thinking Chinese Reds...