Word: circe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., the city's only two dailies have been closed by a strike of the American Newspaper Guild. When Guild members on the morning Record (circ. 29,177) and evening Times-Leader-News (circ. 59,594) walked out during bargaining on a new contract, mechanical employees of the papers refused to cross the picket lines, thus forcing the papers to stop publishing altogether. Guildsmen wanted five-year minimums raised to $125 a week (from $103), a 35-hour work week (instead of 39), and fringe benefits. The Guild also objected to compulsory arbitration...
...Cassandra" of the London Daily Mirror, biggest daily (circ. 4,535,687) in the world, owl-shaped, sharp-tongued William Neil Connor, 45, is the hardest-hitting and most-quoted columnist in Britain. Cassandra combines the terrible temper of a Westbrook Pegler with the calculated irreverence of an H. L. Mencken. "It is a pity," Sir Winston Churchill once said, "that so able a writer should show himself so dominated by malevolence." Even his own paper often finds his comments hard to take, but suffers them because of his circulation-building appeal. Says Mirror Editorial Director Hugh Cudlipp: "Cassandra disagrees...
London dailies, the biggest in the world, are trying a new way to grow bigger. They are publishing children's weeklies. The breezy Laborite tabloid Minor (circ. 4,535,687) started it with Junior Mirror, filled with puzzles, junior sports news, contests, do-it-yourself news, and comics, which has already reached a circulation of 1,300,000. Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express (circ. 4,077,835) followed with a tabloid Junior Express, last week sold more than 900,000 copies. The cheesecake-laden Daily Sketch inserted a Junior Sketch section in one of its regular editions...
...Alicia Patterson, 47, editor and publisher of Long Island's tabloid Newsday (circ. 209,677), the fastest-growing and the most profitable big daily paper started in the U.S. in the last 20 years. A child of the famed Patterson-McCormick publishing dynasty, she is, nevertheless, cut from different cloth than her late, copper-haired, copper-tongued aunt, Cissy Patterson, who, as boss of the Washington Times-Herald, once confessed: "The trouble with me is that I am a vindictive old shanty-Irish bitch...
...Martini Oracle. Today Virginia City and the Territorial Enterprise are staging a comeback. The community (pop. 2,450) is up to 17 saloons. The newspaper is Nevada's biggest weekly (circ. 4,900) and proudly bills itself as "Mark Twain's Newspaper" in memory of the two years Twain spent on it as reporter, city editor and publisher. But Twain would hardly recognize his old sheet today with its florid ads for the Stork Club, Rolls-Royces, and Chicago's Pump Room, despite the lavish use of type left over from the Gay Nineties...