Word: circe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...daughter of the late Joseph Medill Patterson, Alicia Patterson revered the journalistic talent that made his New York Daily News (circ. 2,109,601) the biggest U.S. paper. But she did not always agree with him about newspapering. Although her father warned her that Long Island would never "take to" a tabloid daily, she went ahead anyway and started Newsday, made it a spectacular success. This week Alicia Patterson, 47, won a journalistic award that has always escaped the Daily News. The Pulitzer Prize board gave Newsday its top prize for the most ""disinterested and meritorious public service rendered...
...Newsday (circ. 190,151) won the prize for its campaign exposing corruption and graft at New York's trotting tracks (TIME, Oct. 19). Four years ago, Newsday Managing Editor Alan Hathway, an alumnus of the New York tabloid News, started hammering at the Roosevelt Raceway, about half a mile from Newsday's plant, charged that Long Island's Building Trades Boss (A.F.L.) William De Koning was shaking down builders and track employees for close to $1,000,000 a year. Governor Thomas E. Dewey appointed a special commission to clean up the raceways, and last month Labor...
...local reporting under "deadline pressure," the Vicksburg (Miss.) Sunday Post-Herald (circ. 8,800). It won for its coverage of a tornado that struck Vicksburg (pop. 27,948) last December, killed 39, left 1,200 homeless and destroyed communications. Despite the destruction, City Editor Charles Faulk, 39, with a staff of only five reporters, quickly got out an edition of the paper with up-to-the-minute news and pictures of the entire disaster...
...could swing the party to support "a British neutralism" between the U.S. and Russia, "the leadership would be his reward,'' noted the Manchester Guardian, "but there is nothing more improbable in politics than that Mr. Bevan will succeed." Bitterest of all was the Laborite tabloid Daily Mirror (circ. 4,500,000): "Again he has shown that the greatest blunder the party could make would be to elect him leader . . . For who can follow a whirlwind? How can a man who does not give loyalty expect to command loyalty from others...
...folded five* of the six remaining general dailies (all with circulations of less than 10,000), leaving only the Jamestown (N.Y.) Sun (circ. 10,722) still published by I.T.U. The papers said angrily that lack of advertising killed the papers in cities where "the people [wished] for a second and competing paper." Apparently the people's wish "for a second and competing newspaper" was not strong enough to send them to the newsstands...