Word: circe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...undisputed boss of the World-Herald, Omaha's only daily (circ. 254,467), Henry Doorly has long had a bedrock maxim for publishing his paper. "You can't look for popularity, if you're an independent paper," says he, "because you're constantly stepping on someone's toes. When you're alone it's doubly difficult to please everyone...
Many an American thinks of British newspapers as a logical extension of traditional striped-pants British reserve, formality and respectability. Actually, nothing could be further from the truth. Except for the three "quality" dailies-the Times of London, Manchester Guardian, and London's Daily Telegraph (combined circ. 1.4 million)-Britain's six other national papers (combined circ. 14.8 million) extend by degrees to the wildest and most sensational in the world-and the least informative. On the 100th anniversary this year of the birth of British press freedom, the Times took one horrified look at the giant journalistic...
...where per capita daily newspaper buying is the highest in the world (615 papers sold daily for every 1,000 population), readers have a choice ranging from the no headlines of the uncompromising Times to the screaming headlines of the irrepressible Laborite Daily Mirror, biggest daily in the world (circ. 4,725,122). The well-written Manchester Guardian (circ. 156,154) and the Daily Telegraph (circ. 1,048,776) are slowly picking up readers, but the force of their voices is muffled by the nation's popular dailies, which provide the bulk of the news that Britain reads...
...weekends the News of the World (circ. 7,971,000) and its weekly rivals are filled with lurid accounts of court reports of crimes, engulfing such thoughtful, first-rate weekly newspapers as the Sunday Times or Observer, which together have a circulation of only slightly over a million. Observed New York Herald Tribune Columnist Roscoe Drummond, visiting in London last week: "We Americans often think the British press neglects America . . . Most British mass circulation newspapers neglect what is important about Britain [in] a sensational, restless hodgepodge of trash and trivia...
Under Minister Ichimada's new rules, U.S. businessmen in Japan will pay up to 65% tax on all income, whether earned in Japan or elsewhere, e.g., stock dividends received in the U.S. are taxable. Headlined Tokyo's big (circ. more than 4,000,000) Asahi Shimbun: NEW TAXES MAKE FOREIGN BLUE EYES...