Word: circe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since J. Russell Maguire, oil speculator, munitions maker and onetime broker, took over the fading American Mercury (circ. 66,017) in 1952 he has had staff trouble. Within six months Editor William Bradford Huie walked out rather than turn over editorial control to Owner Maguire. Last week most of the Mercury's top editors left in a body. Out went Editor John A. Clements, who is also promotion boss of the Hearst, magazines, followed by Editorial Writer J. B. Matthews, Military Pundit George Fielding Eliot, Author (Seeds of Treason) Ralph de Toledano and three others. Columnists Howard Rushmore...
Ever since Freda Kirchwey bought the deep pink Nation in 1937, it has been almost constantly in the red. Publisher-Editor Kirchwey kept the weekly (circ. 32,726) going only by a constant begging campaign for contributions. Last week, weary of rattling the tin cup, Freda Kirchwey stepped out of her job. "I want to do some traveling and some writing," she said, "without the burdens...
...Palmolive. The News had a long way to go to challenge its prosperous but stodgy rival, the Observer (circ. 137,693). Robinson and his editors pepped up the paper's reporting and writing, cleaned up its typography, expanded the sports section, ran more pictures. On the editorial page, Robinson jumped into fights with both feet, soon made a reputation throughout the South as a strong voice. Despite local drys, the News fought for legalized liquor and thus helped run 400 bootleggers out of business the News ripped the hide off Race-Baiter Bryant Bowles when he spoke in Charlotte...
...this year to put out about 10,000 house organs aimed at strengthening ties-and improving communications-between worker and employer. The industrial publications range from crudely mimeographed sheets in small plants to handsome, slick-paper magazines by big corporations, such as General Motors' LiFE-size G.M. Folks (circ. 500,000), and the DuPont Magazine...
Died. George Francis ("Old Worcester") Booth, 84, editor and publisher of Massachusetts' Worcester Telegram and the Evening Gazette (circ. 157,678); in Gloucester, Mass...