Word: circe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most newspapers have some such resounding principles either engraved on their buildings or printed in their pages. But at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (circ. 391,890), the "Platform" is not only embedded in the walls and run every day on the editorial page; it is so deeply implanted in the minds of every staffer that it has made the P-D the leading crusading newspaper in the U.S. By standing on the Platform he drafted for his heirs, the P-D's late great founder, Joseph Pulitzer, brought on 17 libel suits in the first three years...
...complete newspaper, including ads, and 50 to 100 copies were printed for Trib files. After five days of this, the Trib decided that the financial strain was too great, and resumed publication. But the paper again was only an eight-page one that carried no ads. The Trib (circ. 353,411) figured that by selling about 2,000,000 copies, it might break even on current expenses from circulation receipts alone...
...Yale Daily News saw their chance, hustled down to New York City by car with thousands of copies of their papers and gave them away free "at representative places-the Harvard Club, Yale Club, Wall Street and Tammany Hall." Copies of the Wall Street Journal (New York City circ. 14,576) and Journal of Commerce (N.Y.C. circ. 13,310) were grabbed up as soon as they hit the stands. Even such foreign-language dailies as La Prensa, Staats-Zeitung und Her old and Il Progresso Italo-Americano sold fast. The sensational weekly Enquirer (est. circ. 75,000) turned into...
...crime reporter on the Detroit Free Press (circ. 394,302) Ken McCormick, 45, picks his own assignments and takes as much time as he needs on them. One assignment he worked on brought the Free Press a Pulitzer Prize in 1945 for exposing legislative graft in Michigan. Last July, McCormick picked another story he thought promising. He went to the State Prison of Southern Michigan to talk to a convict who had written the Free Press that he was innocent. McCormick was skeptical of the prisoner's story, remarked to Warden William Bannan that he had talked to more...
Died. The Rev. Francis Xavier Talbot, S.J., 64, longtime (1936-44) editor of the Jesuit weekly America (circ. 33,000), onetime president of Baltimore's Loyola College (1947-51) and chaplain-counselor of the Legion of Decency's movie-review committee; of pneumonia; in Washington...