Word: circe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rise in the circulation of the weekly newsmagazines. To those who wish to keep up with the world, but can't bother to plow through the newspapers, these magazines offer an entire week's events boiled down into one easily-digested serving. And they are influential. As Time (circ. 2,000,000), modestly admits in its advertisements, "America's leading educators, presidents of business corporation, members of Congress, the top men in practically every field vote Time their favorite magazine. . . . They depend on its accuracy...
Twins' Trio. Not content with one publishing success, Réaltiés' Frerejean and Rémon (known to staffers as "The Twins") have fathered three other successful publications. The trio: glossy, authoritative Connaissance des Arts, the most widely read art magazine in France (circ. 46,500); Benjamin, the only "serious" children's weekly in France (where parents also complain about comic books), with a circulation of 80,000; Entreprise, France's only business magazine. The semimonthly Entreprise (circ. 40,000) was stymied at first by the traditional secretiveness of the French businessman...
Died. George Toland Cameron, 82, publisher since 1925 of the San Francisco Chronicle (circ. 166,800), topflight West Coast industrialist; in San Francisco...
...since 1942, when it dropped its sprawling, double-deck cover title, had the Saturday Evening Post (circ. 4,600,000) made major changes in its makeup. But last week readers of the Satevepost saw a big difference. There were more pictures-some spread across two pages or running necklace-fashion around text. There were wider margins, gaps of white space, splashier illustrations, and a Collier's-like short-short story. As body type for its stories and articles, the Satevepost replaced its familiar Century Schoolbook type with a lighter version of an old-fashioned design by John Baskerville, great...
Died. Herbert L. Stone, 83, president (since 1938) of Yachting Publishing Corp., longtime (1908-52) editor of Yachting magazine (circ. 60,600), author (The A.B.C. of Boat Sailing); in Manhattan...