Word: circe
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Died. Clara Savage Littledale, 64, perky editor of Parents' Magazine (circ. 1,643,000, largest in its field) since its founding in 1926, who crusaded for better pay for teachers, school lunches, improved health exams for children and more thorough care and training for mothers; after, long illness; in Manhattan...
...major department stores began handing out their own daily advertising handbills to customers as they entered (total circ. 150,000). One chain distributed its own full-dress, four-page newspaper to 100,000 customers...
...There was no place for a birth or marriage announcement-but undertakers managed to get death notices into the Reporter (circ. 100,000), the eight-page daily published by newspaper unions...
First reason for the vigorous intellectual leadership of the weekly Christian Century (circ. 38,500) is tough-minded, liberal Editor Charles Clayton Morrison, 81, who bought it in 1908 (when it had 600 readers) and made it into the trumpet voice of nondenominational Protestantism. Eight years ago Editor Morrison retired, leaving the magazine in the hands of his longtime managing editor, Paul Hutchinson. Editor Hutchinson is the second reason for the Century's success...
...some of the toughest hides on Fleet Street were smarting cruelly from Churchill's thrusts. It was Randolph who punctured the inaccuracies in a series on his father begun (and abruptly dropped) by the Daily Mail (TIME, Dec. 12). Next to feel the sting was the Sunday Pictorial (circ. 5,466,255), whose blatant stories about a modern "virgin birth" created an uproar in the whole British press, until Journalist Churchill, under his frequent pen name, Pharos, in the weekly Spectator, exposed the fact that the hard-boiled Pic had been taken in by a prankster. Then Randolph needled...