Word: circe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trained for it. Luis is a politician, but he does not have the popularity or experience for the presidency-yet." That seemed to leave but one choice. "If the people want me," Tacho said, "I will serve again in 1957." Tacho's newspaper Novedades (Nicaragua's biggest, circ. 14,000) has already started telling the people that they want...
After an 81-year chase, the hard facts of economics caught up with another paper. In Bangor, Maine, Publisher James D. Ewing, son of former Federal Security Administrator Oscar R. Ewing, announced last week that the evening (circ. 7,058) and Sunday (circ. 21,004) Commercial was suspending publication immediately...
...Washington bureau of the Providence morning Journal (circ. 45,767) and evening Bulletin (145,255), Bureau Chief Frederic W. Collins got a routine offer. He was invited to appear (for $125) on a TV interview show put on by Facts Forum, a nonprofit, "nonpartisan, nonpolitical educational organization." Newsman Collins made a quick check of Facts Forum, turned down the offer and wrote a story suggesting that Facts Forum is "not all it appeared to be." The Journal-Bulletin did not let the matter drop; they assigned Reporter Ben H. Bagdikian, 33, to a two-month investigation of Facts Forum. Last...
...daily Lock Haven (Pa.) Express (circ. 7,639), Editor Rebecca Gross, 48, sounded a holiday editorial warning to drive carefully: "Who wants to start the New Year in a hospital or a morgue?" Shortly after, Editor Gross, one of a group of U.S. editors to visit Moscow last year (TIME, April 13), and one of the first two newswomen ever to be awarded a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard, proved her own point. On New Year's Eve, according to a witness, she drove through a new stop sign, crashed into another car. At the hospital, her right...
...editorial staff. Since President Cowles leaned towards Shapiro's view of how Look should be run, Tasker abruptly resigned. Into his place went an old Look hand, Dan Mich, 49, who had resigned in 1950 as executive editor of Look to become editorial director of McCall's (circ. 4,525,060). Because Cowles wanted "to give Mich a free hand in selecting his assistants," Look's Executive Editor William Lowe and Managing Editor Les Midgley resigned with Tasker. New Editorial Director Mich, whose salary at Look is close to $50,000 a year, will have a healthy...