Word: circe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TOMORROW CITY BUS AND TRAM LINES WILL BE STRUCK FROM 9 TO 11 AND FROM 3 TO 5. The strike, led by a Communist-controlled union, occurred as predicted, to no one's surprise. For, as the biggest (est. circ. 500,000) and most powerful Communist newspaper published in the free world, L'Unità not only reports the news but makes it as well...
...TIME'S Feb. 15 Press section, you speak of ". . . two big national magazines, monthly Coronet (circ. 3,565,122) and biweekly Collier's (circ. 2,818,003)." You have credited Collier's with what appears to be Coronet's circulation...
Seldom in the 40 years of its history had the left-wing (but antiCommunist) New Republic (circ. 32,031) been in such parlous condition: its financial backing was gone (TIME, March 16) and it was running a deficit of $1,600 a week. Then the sun came out again. Last week Anne ("Nancy") Elaine Harrison, wife of the New Republic's publisher, fell heir to a third of the $35 million estate* left by her eccentric grandmother, Anita McCormick Elaine, International Harvester heiress, benefactress to the University of Chicago, Foundation for World Government and latter-day angel to such...
CROWDS TOLD, screamed the London Daily Mirror, biggest daily in the world (circ. 4,132,700). PLEASE AUSTRALIA...
Furphies & Training. As a result, in New Zealand, London newsmen traveling with the Queen were greeted by crowds yelling: "Go home, you pommy [a newcomer from England] liars." Last week in Australia, under the headline CUT IT OUT CHUMS!, the Sydney Daily Telegraph (circ. 310,000) jeered at Fleet Streeters for reporting that the Queen's safety was in danger because of the crowds and the rigors of her tour. Said the Telegraph: "England can disregard these furphies [Australian slang for wild rumors]. The only danger seems to be that the hustling correspondents have had to do may cause...