Word: circe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...country's biggest paper, France-Soir (circ. 1,300,000), leaped to the challenge. With a staff strengthened by 14 new hands, France-Soir jumped from 14 to 20 pages, splashed pictures on its front page, and plugged a contest offering 50 million francs ($142,857) for the best characterization of "the ideal Frenchman." Little Paris-Presse (circ. 160,000) boosted itself from 14 to 16 pages and put in a crossword-puzzle contest. Stuffy, neutralist Le Monde, small (circ. 166,000) but influential, fought the new opposition with a front-page editorial: "Big newspapers capable of exercising...
Specialties. While some rivals tried to link the new paper to the discredited tradition, Le Temps set its sights high in the better postwar tradition of French journalism. Under Philippe Boegner, 46, a veteran of France's top picture magazine, Paris-Match (circ. 1,500,000), as well as newspapering, Le Temps pledged its independence of any party or clique. Domestically, Le Temps takes a politically conservative line; abroad, it is friendly to the U.S. and Western unity. One of Boegner's innovations is an editorial page separate from news columns...
...half-century, Clarksburg, W. Va. (pop. 32,014) has chafed under a one-party press. Its boss: a flinty old (79) party named Cecil B. Highland, who publishes the town's only dailies, the Democratic morning Exponent (circ. 13,572) and the Republican evening Telegram (circ. 23,593). Publisher Highland has fought radio (by banning even paid program listings), television for Clarksburg, a public sewage-disposal project, daylight-saving time, and most attempts to improve the town's playgrounds, schools and police. In his newspapers he has seldom bothered to print the other side of such issues. Last...
When Northern newsmen covering the Negro boycott of Montgomery buses swarmed into the city room of Alabama's Montgomery Advertiser (circ. 60,144), Editor-in-Chief Grover Cleveland Hall Jr., 41, did his best to answer their questions. He also asked questions-and decided from the answers that the North's own racial sins were being covered by its press in a "conspiracy of silence." To prove his point, Hall launched a daily series on Northern discrimination. Said he: "Whatever we reveal will not solve any problem Alabama has. Our purpose is to point out to the self...
...turned his strong, steady hand to his memoirs. Fleet Street, which has spiced many a grey Sunday with the death-cell memoirs of murder ers, bid eagerly for the chance to take their readers right into the execution chamber. The winner: Lord Kemsley's Sunday Empire News (circ. 1,961,230), which paid a reported ?40,000 ($112,000) for Pierrepoint's own story of how, in 26 years, he took 433 men and 17 women to the gallows...