Word: circe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...secular standard; the layman-edited monthly Jubilee is a tasteful slick picture magazine, and an infusion of trained lay journalists has given many of the diocesan papers both professional polish and a telling effect in their communities. Last week the association honored New Jersey's weekly Advocate (circ. 96,881) for a crusade against firms operating on Sunday that cost the paper $45,000 in canceled ads, but succeeded in getting the legislature to ban Sunday used-car sales. Another prizewinner: Cleveland's Catholic Universe Bulletin (circ. 90,795), which campaigned successfully for the ouster of a Communist...
...official" status of Catholic papers confuses not only non-Catholics but many of the faithful themselves. In the view of Catholic critics, some hotly partisan Catholic papers, e.g., Brooklyn's right-wing Tablet (circ. 119,893), seem content to let readers believe-as many do-that editorial tributes to Joe McCarthy and Senator Jenner of Indiana are church-inspired...
...When Osservatore della Domenica* a Catholic weekly published in Vatican City, ran an article attacking U.S. Protestants, sloppy reporting made it appear in many U.S. papers as a Vatican-inspired view. But Milwaukee's Catholic Herald Citizen (circ. 126,097)-which is just as official as the unofficial Osservatore-rapped the Italian article as "stupid, untruthful, uncharitable...
...Father Raymond T. Bosler, editor of the Indiana Catholic and Record (circ. 35,122), has backed the American Civil Liberties Union in a local fight against the American Legion, once attacked Spain's hard-bitten Cardinal Segura for his crackdown on Protestants. The paper's editorial was headed: THE CARDINAL CALLED THE COPS 400 YEARS TOO LATE. The only comment Editor Bosler got from Archbishop Paul C. Schulte: "I thought your headline was a little flippant...
...best-read columnist in Hawaii. Once, to test the legendary hospitality of Hawaiians, he walked for a week around the island of Oahu carrying no money, food or blankets, yet was well fed and housed. Krauss's latest stunt grew out of a column in the Advertiser (circ. 68,548) in which he twitted housewives who complain about their hard work "so their husbands will feel guilty enough to do the dishes." When a reader challenged him to try his own hand at the job, Newsman Krauss, a 32-year-old bachelor, agreed to take...