Word: circe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...South Africa have already heard Roberts' orotund voice, been exposed to his high-pressure evangelism. He has conducted 20 successful crusades, set up regular programs on 223 radio and 98 TV stations throughout the U.S., gone into the publishing business with books, tracts and two magazines (total circ. 5,000,000). But his most valuable asset is his "healing" right arm, through which, he says, the power of God flows like a current of electricity...
...bought the only morning daily in the city. Hearst was sorry; in less than four years Carter's competition was so tough that he sold out to Carter, leaving only the small (cir. 52,393) evening Scripps-Howard Press to compete with the Star-Telegram (combined morning-evening circ. 246,354). For $300 Carter bought a radio station (which later became the paper's profitable WBAP-TV), then branched out into the oil business. After drilling 99 dry holes, Carter struck a rich oilfield and sold part of it for $16.5 million to set up the Amon Carter...
Died. Silliman Evans, 61, president-publisher of the Nashville daily Tennessean (circ. 112,947) and longtime key figure in Democratic Party politics; of a heart attack; in Fort Worth, where he had attended the funeral of Publisher Amon Carter (see below...
...publisher of the monthly Farm Journal, biggest farm magazine in the U.S. (circ. 2,870,380), Graham Patterson had an office ideally located to keep an eye on his closest competitor. Right across Philadelphia's downtown Washington Square, he looked into the offices of the Curtis Publishing Co., owner of the Satevepost, Ladies' Home Journal, Holiday, Jack and Jill and the monthly Country Gentleman, second biggest farm magazine in the U.S. (circ. 2,566,314). Publisher Patterson enjoyed the view but not the competition. Last week he found a way to keep one and eliminate the other...
...year since he took over. He threw out the magazine's ponderous, technical farm features, replaced them with over-the-fence news for farmers. To separate his rural but non-farm readers from farmers, in 1943 he bought the newsweekly Pathfinder, later changed its name to Town Journal (circ. 1,592,615), and reset its editorial sights to lure small-town nonfarm readers. To increase Farm Journal circulation, Publisher Patterson and President Richard J. Babcock, 43, started three regional editions, printing specialized news and information for farmers in all sections of the U.S. Ad revenue climbed from...