Word: circe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lieutenants pleaded anxiously for every reader to contribute generously. Their purpose: "to save the party press." But at the first rallies few Communists and even fewer readers seemed to be listening. The contribution boxes came back only half full. Complained L'Unita, Italy's biggest (est. circ. 390,000) Red daily: "Subscriptions began slowly in contrast with the rapid character of previous Press Month rallies...
...Times will poach on the electronic preserve by using a TV circuit to send a daily ten-page, high-speed facsimile edition (circ. 25,000) to the Republican Convention in time for breakfast in San Francisco...
Died. Grove Hiram Patterson, 74, editor (since 1926) of the Toledo Blade (circ. 194,780), home-folksy columnist ("Way of the World") and author (I Like People), a founder of the American Society of Newspaper Editors; of a heart attack; in Toledo...
Died. The Most Rev. John Francis Noll, 81, Roman Catholic archbishop of Fort Wayne, Ind., founder (1912) of the weekly Our Sunday Visitor (circ. 762,-353), one of the founders of Hollywood's Legion of Decency; in Fort Wayne...
North Carolina's Wilmington Morning Star (circ. 17,866) went to press with a front-page picture of four Marine witnesses in the court-martial of Sergeant Matthew C. McKeon (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). As soon as the paper hit his desk, the editor on duty gulped and stopped the presses. He had failed to notice, in the shadowy impression on the Associated Press mat that supplied the picture, that one of the marines, Private Eugene W. Ervin of Bridgeport, Conn., was a Negro. The deskman met the crisis by ordering a pressman to take hammer and chisel...