Word: circe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fiery crusade against Communism, corruption and President Getulio Vargas, Rio Journalist Carlos Lacerda has gained tens of thousands of loyal friends, scores of vengeful enemies. The 40-year-old editor of Tribune da Imprensa (circ. 50,000) has been beaten by thugs for criticizing the army, arrested for exposing police graft, jailed four times for political reasons, attacked in his home after accusing a high officer of corruption. Recently a pistol-toting hothead tried but failed to provoke the editor to a duel...
...company, a young philosophy major, a onetime pressagent, the former owner of a record company who is now getting his M.A. in history, and an ex-Army public-relations officer who has studied music at Juilliard. They form the music staff of The Billboard, 60-year-old amusement weekly (circ. 49,966) that has become the bible of the music trade. By picking pop tunes for listing in the paper's widely respected "Spotlight" columns, they do what almost everybody in the business tries to do-pick hits in advance...
...saved $1,000. With it, and some more raised from fellow towns men, he bought the North Attleboro Evening Chronicle (circ. 4,000), which he still publishes. The next step was politics. He served three years in the Massachusetts house of representatives (and on a committee chairmaned by Calvin Coolidge), three years in the state senate. On the side, Joe paid for the Dartmouth education of two younger brothers, Ed and Al. He also bought an insurance agency, now run by a nephew. It has no salesmen because Joe does not want his constituents to think he is pressuring them...
...paper. She brightened up Ironton's Center Street by converting one of her buildings into a Courier plant, with a shiny new chrome-and-glass façade. Circulation of the paper grew to 7,576, not far behind its afternoon rival, the 28-year-old Ironton Tribune (circ. 9,280). But Publisher Sexton proved to be an erratic newswoman. She ran through a series of editors, handed down unpredictable edicts that made the Courier an erratic paper, e.g., no local news on Page One in the first edition, and nothing but local news on Page...
...Last summer Migros bought the Turissia sewing-machine factory, cut prices about 13% and has since doubled output. Migros also provides evening schools for adults, runs a book club with 37,000 members, distributes long-playing records at discounts of 42% to 50%, publishes the Zurich daily Die Tat (circ. 35,000), has helped finance such Swiss movies as Marie-Louise, The Last Chance, Four in a Jeep and Heidi...