Word: circe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain's proliferating women's weeklies, twelve in all (total circ. about 10.4 million), are the Cinderellas of postwar publishing. The bestsellers charge some of the highest space rates in Britain (up to $10,500 for a four-color page) and have to turn away business to keep the magazines down to manageable size (limit: 80 pages). The top rivals. Woman (circ. 3.462,488) and Woman's Own (circ. 2.556,130), alone have quadrupled circulation, last year boosted their prices to fivepence (6?) without flinching...
...under a Lorain, Ohio dateline: "The first bread line since the Depression days of the 1930s formed today at City Hall in this recession-hit steel town where one of every nine residents is receiving unemployment checks." The "news" sped across the U.S. Cried the Lorain evening Journal (circ. 26,517): "A vicious false report ... a case study in mass hysteria." Rewriting the U.P. rewriteman, a Journal editorial pointed out that Lorain (pop. 59,219) has a total of only 175 relief cases v. no at the same time last year. When three bakeries gave the city welfare department...
...circulation and advertising, Jesse Jones's Chronicle had long towered over its rivals as commandingly as Jones's San Jacinto Monument* bestrides its battlefield. For the first time in more than 20 years, the Post (circ. 213,198) last October inched ahead of the windy, lethargic Chronicle (212.641,) in weekday circulation (though the Chronicle still has a strapping 14,000 Sunday lead...
...should ship Carl Rowan to Russia," a small-town attorney angrily urged the Minneapolis Tribune (circ. 212,873). The Tribune's prizewinning Reporter Rowan (TIME, March 4) was raising tempers all over Minnesota last week. When somebody invited him to make a speech in one rural community, the town fathers promptly refused use of the school auditorium. Jeered a rural editor: "If Rowan visited a town where a funeral and a wedding were taking place simultaneously, he'd go straight to the funeral...
...admonishing slogan that hangs from the ceilings of Fairchild's twelve-story home office building just off lower Fifth Avenue. Over the years Edmund and his brother Louis founded five flourishing trade publications: Women's Wear Daily, Daily News Record (men's clothing industry; circ. 21,687), Men's Wear (a semimonthly for retailers; circ. 21,091), Home Furnishings Daily (circ. 40,302) and Footwear News (a weekly; circ...