Word: circe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...open season on his past in the French press. The government had deposed him for his anti-French activities and his flirtation with Moroccan nationalists. First came stories showing how he had played with the Nazis during the war. Last week France-Soir, the largest daily in Paris (circ. 955,600) broke an exposé of Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef as a "bloody, sadistic Bluebeard." Among France-Soir's sensational charges...
...house-organ Facts Forum News, which goes free to a mailing list including Congressmen, radio-TV stations, newspapers, commentators, etc. Last week word got out that Oilman Hunt had bigger publishing ambitions. To Manhattan he had sent a representative to try to buy two big national magazines, monthly Coronet (circ. 3,565,122) and biweekly Collier's (circ. 2,818,003). In his hunt for a big national magazine at both places Hunt got the same answer: no sale...
...paralyzed by a birth injury, he was found abandoned in a third-class railway coach in Lucknow. Doctors at the hospital where he was taken discovered he had two sets of upper incisors, hastily jumped to a series of unwarranted, nonmedical conclusions. The English-language Lucknow National Herald (est. circ. 10,000) heard about it, carried the first story reporting that the boy "seems to have been taken away to the jungle by jackals when just a small child." A Reuters correspondent at New Delhi, 300 miles away, long-distanced the hospital, put the story on its world wire with...
...ailing, too tired for the job . . . The blunt truth is that Churchill's continued rule in 10 Downing Street has become a disaster to his party and to the country," shrilled London's tabloid Daily Mirror (circ. 4,000,000). As if to make a mockery of such talk, Churchill put on his liveliest show in weeks...
...hours of the day, he stopped everything else while he concentrated on an evening newspaper that had been airmailed from 1,268 miles away. The newspaper: the Milwaukee Journal (circ. 339,532). Harry Grant was no ordinary reader -and the Journal is no ordinary paper. Harry Grant is boss of the Journal, which he has made into one of the best newspapers in the U.S. He has also made it one of the most controversial...