Word: circe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...orders from Washington, McKay's last-minute announcement caught many Oregon Republicans off guard, and created some resentment. Some of McKay's old friends who had lined up behind Hitchcock refused to switch. Objecting to the "commissioning" of a candidate in Washington, the Salem Oregon Statesman (circ. 18,646), published by former Governor Charles A. Sprague, an erstwhile McKay supporter, has come out foursquare for Hitchcock. The dangers in this situation are not lost on McKay. Says he: "You'd think I was a carpetbagger coming here from Washington instead of the grandson of a Hudson...
What's wrong with the U.S. press? With circulation and ad revenue at a peak, few editors and publishers seem to be in any mood for selfcriticism. But last week, in the Saturday Review, Editor Louis B. Seltzer of Cleveland's afternoon Press (circ. 309,685), one of the country's top journalists, found plenty wrong with newspapers...
Cincinnati's three newspapers last week had Page One news in which all three figured. Up for sale went a block of bonds convertible into 36.5% of the stock-working control-of the city's only morning and Sunday paper, the prosperous Enquirer (circ. 206,408). Among the bidders: the Scripps-Howard chain, which owns the Cincinnati Post (circ. 164,646), and the city's third paper, the Taft-owned Times-Star (circ. 154,314), which narrowly missed taking over the Enquirer in 1952. The winner: Scripps-Howard, which paid $4,059,000 against a Times-Star...
...addition, he directs four book collections for three different publishers, runs a quarterly magazine for a Catholic intellectual center, edits a monthly religious digest called Ecclesia (circ. 100,000), lectures about every other week, writes four or five newspaper or magazine articles a month, and answers 18 to 20 letters a day, mostly from people with problems...
...double page of foreign news (rivaling France-Soir), lots of features from birth control to Stalin's crimes (to compete with Paris-Presse), three pages of financial news (to offset Le Monde). Right from the start, the new paper's circulation topped that of Le Figaro (circ. 475,000), the morning bible of France's upper middle class. Whatever its own future, Le Temps' spectacular start put the whole Paris press on its mettle...