Word: circe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Glory or Money? Then the Pierre Laza reffs' Elle (circ. 700,000), the country's biggest women's weekly, sent a reporter and photographer on the story. What they found made headlines not only for Elle, but also for the Lazareffs' daily France Soir (circ...
France's conservative Le Figaro (circ. 490,000) burst into front-page bouquets: "Ravishing poems, sparkling with spontaneous sensations, new tingling images." Rhapsodized Professor Pasteur Vallery-Radot, of the French Academy: "She is simply a being of genius. This is art in all its purity." Overnight, little Minou's reputation rose higher than the French cost of living...
...voice that, in front-page editorials or in her weekly column, "Through Hazel Eyes," had long sounded like the county's conscience. Just out of the University of Alabama, Hazel Brannon arrived in Holmes County in 1936, borrowed $3,000, bought the weekly Durant News (circ. 1,475). She was doing well enough by 1943 to take over the county's only other paper, the Advertiser (circ. 2,800), in the county seat of Lexington (pop. 3,198), put them both to campaigning against gambling and bootlegging in the dry county...
...Poetry," said William Wordsworth, "has never brought in enough to buy shoestrings." Neither has Poetry (circ...
...Populi. To the troubled Princess, it was small comfort that there were some who tried to dismiss the whole matter as a moss-backed anachronism. Racing to the Princess' defense, the cocky tabloid Daily Mirror (circ. 4,665,000) asked its more influential brother (circ. 221,972): "Would the Times have preferred this vivacious young woman to marry one of the witless wonders with whom she has been hobnobbing these past few years? Or to live her life in devoted spinsterhood? Luckily the Times cannot banish Princess Margaret. It speaks for a dusty world and a forgotten...