Word: circe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kansas City's evening Star (circ. 344,071), it looked like one of the biggest stories of the year. It played the story atop Page One and ran it for several columns inside the paper. So did the Star's morning edition, the Times (circ. 336,824). The story: the trial of the Government's criminal antitrust suit against the Kansas City Star Co., which puts out both papers. The charge: the Star and its morning paper had killed off their chief rival, the Kansas City Journal-Post, and then used their monopoly position to force advertisers...
Last week in North Carolina, the biggest paper in the state showed how Southern dailies are making the best of it. The Charlotte Observer (circ. 136,302) opposed a proposal for the state legislature to adopt a "declaration of policy" favoring segregation, saying that debate on such a measure would only "offer a forum . . . for the more importunate voices−a stage and a place in the headlines for opportunists." Most newsmen agree that the biggest newspaper problem is to fight hotheaded extremists on both sides. Such rabble-rousers as Race Agitator Bryant Bowles and Florida Sheriff Willis McCall (TIME...
...columns and in ads in British and U.S. dailies, Canada's biggest and most influential morning newspaper this week announced that it is for sale. The Toronto Globe & Mail (circ. 236,593), which many newsmen consider the New York Times of Canada, will be sold to a "responsible" bidder by the estates of George McCullagh and William H. Wright. Already mentioned as possible buyers: Roy H. Thomson, Canada's biggest newspaper publisher (TIME, Sept. 14, 1953), and Texas Millionaire Clint Murchison, whose property includes half interest in the big Trans-Canada Pipe Lines Ltd. Estimated minimum acceptable price...
Arrest These Men. The People, a big (circ. 5,167,445) and sensational newspaper, appreciates Webb's talents. Under the headline WEBB ATTACKED IN LONDON BY TWO MEN IN TAXI, the paper once reported: "Readers are assured that despite the attack upon him, our investigator Duncan Webb will not be intimidated. His inquiries are continuing." One of his inquiries four years ago broke up a vice ring run by the Messina brothers, who had bossed London's pimps and prostitutes for 17 years. After the Home Secretary admitted in Parliament that Scotland Yard had insufficient evidence to break...
Somehow she also finds time to fill up the fortnightly Enid Blyton Magazine (circ. almost 300,000). She replies in writing to 3.000 fan letters a week, deals with 25 British and 40 foreign publishers, supervises four children's social clubs (365,000 members), one of which supports a convalescent home for children under five. Her well-known surgeon husband runs five different Enid Blyton companies, collects royalties from such products as Noddy chocolates, Noddy nighties...