Word: circe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last month Frank C. Allen, managing editor of the States (circ. 103,583), had a bright idea. Allen had started as a reporter on the Birmingham News, had later read with interest Strickland's detailed accounts of corruption in Phenix City. As far as he knew, Strickland's face was unknown in Jefferson Parish, and after a quick phone call to News Managing Editor Vincent Townsend, Allen borrowed Strickland for a couple of weeks...
...circulation, and will pull in a record $560 million in advertising this year, pessimism shrouded much of Fleet Street this week like an out-of-season pea-souper. Reasons: sapped by soaring costs and plummeting readership, Britain's fourth and fifth biggest dailies, the Labor-owned Daily Herald (circ. 1,653,997) and the Independent-Liberal News Chronicle (1,441,438), were desperately discussing a marriage of convenience; three smaller newspapers had already gone under in the past seven months. Nor were dailies alone in their troubles. London's earnest left-wing Sunday Reynolds' News...
...space they needed, thus, in effect, subsidizing smaller and weaker papers that had space to spare. With the end of newsprint restrictions. British admen, like their Madison Avenue cousins, began to concentrate their ads in dailies that give them either mass circulation, such as the Daily Express (circ. 4,042,334), or class circulation, e.g., the Daily Telegraph (1.075,565). Commercial TV had also lured advertisers from the smaller-circulation dailies...
...five-column picture showed Britain's Prince Philip in Denmark standing over a simpering nurse named Peggy Goodchild (see cut). But if the Express (circ. 4,042,334) knew what "caused the twinkle in the Prince's eye and the obvious blush on the maiden's cheek," it was not telling. Instead, it offered a ?100 ($280) prize to the reader who sent in a caption arch enough to "capture the mood of the moment in the brightest...
While-as the Express claimed-20,000 readers scurried to tell the editors just what the Prince could have told the bashful maid, the rival Daily Mirror (circ. 4,649,696) rode TO THE RESCUE one day before the Express' deadline. WHAT COULD THE PRINCE HAVE SAID? asked the tabloid Mirror in a seven-column layout. The answer: Nothing. "His conversation with her had ended BEFORE she looked bashful!" trumpeted the Mirror. The Mirror tracked down the photographer who took the one-in-ten-thousand picture, and he confirmed the Mirror's beat. Not only was the Prince...