Word: circe
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Atop the front page of his London Daily Express (circ. 4,077,835) Britain's indomitable No. 1 press lord has long emblazoned: CONTROLLING SHAREHOLDER LORD BEAVERBROOK. Last week the Express dropped the Beaver's line and announced that "the newspapers have passed out of his control." The Beaver had turned over his controlling shares to the Beaverbrook Foundation, which has been set up as a "British Empire educational trust." But the formal change did not mean that the Beaver was relinquishing any of the undisputed control he has exercised over the Express and his two other dailies...
...seasoned readers of the Chicago Tribune (circ. 877,636) the announcement on the editorial page last week was something of a shocker. Under the headline NEW DEPARTMENT, the Trib said matter-of-factly: "That its readers may have the benefit of other views in judging issues of national and international policy, the Tribune is instituting a department on this page designated 'The Other Side,' [reprinting] editorials from other newspapers which generally reject judgments sharply opposed...
...there" was a proud and powerful minority who did not like Geneva. Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express (circ. 4,000,000) is not the most influential voice in Britain, but it is certainly the loudest...
...businessmen and educators under President Leland Hazard of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. Sparked by Booster Hazard and Mayor David Lawrence, WQED is financed by foundation grants, gets transmission facilities from local commercial stations, helps defray its operating cost by selling $2 subscriptions to its monthly magazine, Program Previews (circ...
Some of the newspapers that most deplore McCarthy, said the Washington evening Star (circ. 234,660) last week, keep right on doing their best to build him up. The press, said the Star, "must be credited with a very substantial and entirely unnecessary assist in [McCarthy's] rise to national fame...