Word: circe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...China Hands. Other editors were quick to agree with the Trib. South Dakota's Republican Sioux Falls Argus Leader (circ. 51,575), which has sent staffers to Russia, Poland, Czechoslovakia and other Iron Curtain countries, protested that Secretary Dulles' built-in discrimination against enterprising smaller papers "is intolerable under the American press system." Said Virginius Dabney, president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and editor of Virginia's Richmond Times-Dispatch: "I find no justification for a limit on the number of legitimate, accredited correspondents...
Having rattled most of the skeletons in Hollywood's closet and even planted some hand-fabricated new ones, five-year-old Confidential (circ. 3,269,954) started blabbing its own secrets. In a green-and-gold Los Angeles courtroom, where bimonthly Confidential ("Tells the Facts and Names the Names") and its sister-in-smut Whisper ("The Stories Behind the Headlines") are being tried on charges of criminal libel and conspiracy to publish obscenity, prosecution witnesses gradually yielded answers to a question that has long vexed Hollywood and intrigued scandalmag readers. How do the bedroom-beat boys and girls...
...unmarried. In Washington, Bob Kennedy said he had not been at the Skakels'. In Manhattan, an A.P. man checked a picture taken at the party and realized that the man identified as Dave Jr. was not the Teamster boss's son. But Connecticut's Stamford Advocate (circ. 24,674), which originated the story, insisted that George Skakel had "solemnly confirmed" that the Becks had been at his home. Instead of killing the story, the A.P. rewrote the lead: "The Stamford Advocate said today...
...named Chris Powell, the headline in London's Daily Sketch trumpeted: WIN THIS MAN! HE'S A WORLD SENSATION! After a four-day buildup and a spate of pictures showing Winnable Powell, with a pipe, a monocle and a succession of simpering show girls, the tabloid Sketch (circ. 1,283,000) finally broke the secret. This "elegant, enterprising, experienced man in a million," said the Sketch, would be rotated-for assignment-among the letter writers who could most convincingly explain what they wanted...
Every time medical researchers announce a new theory about the causes of atherosclerosis (narrowing of the arteries by fatty deposits) and the resulting susceptibility to heart attacks and strokes, anxious laymen rush to their doctors to ask, "What should I do?" Last week, in its journal Circulation (circ. 8,000), the American Heart Association took note of the situation with a 16-page report by its nutrition committee...