Word: circe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hugh started out in Cardiff as his brothers did, arrived in London, at 20, as features editor of the Sunday Chronicle. He won the family bet when he was named editor of the huge Sunday Pictorial (circ. 5,046,640) at 24. and became the youngest newspaper editor on Fleet Street. This year he also became editorial director of the Pic's sister, the London Daily Mirror (circ. 4,432,700), biggest daily newspaper in the world. Meanwhile. Percy moved over to the Laborite Daily Herald (circ. 1,965,504) in 1938, two years later became its editor...
Only brother Reg had not made his way into an editor's chair, though he was close to it: he became deputy editor of News of the World (circ. 8,230,158), world's biggest weekly. This week Reg Cudlipp made it three straight for the Cudlipp boys...
...feature in the current issue of Reader's Digest (circ. 17.5 million) is a condensation of The Man Who Wouldn't Talk, a spine-chilling tale about a "gentle spy" by Quentin Reynolds. In Reynolds' crackling, reportorial prose, the book describes "quiet, religious" George DuPre, a Canadian who entered British Intelligence early in World War II and prepared for a strange mission. For nine months he was trained to behave like "the village halfwit" so that he could play the part of a harmless, moronic French garage mechanic after he was dropped behind the German lines...
Last week DuPre, Author Reynolds, the Reader's Digest and Random House, the book's publisher, were all themselves subjected to the most horrible torture in publishing. Across Page 1 the Calgary (Alberta) Herald (circ. 56,456) was the headline: CALGARIAN ADMITS SECRET SERVICE STORY WAS A FABRICATION! GEORGE DUPRE TELLS HERALD HE WAS NEVER...
...friendless old woman scrawled a note just before she died: "The only thing I own is my dog. Please take it to the Press. Ask them to find a home for it. I know the home they find will be a good one." Such confidence in the Cleveland Press (circ. 310,858) is neither misplaced nor unusual. Seven out of every ten people in the Cleveland area, boasts the Press, read the paper. Politicians curry its favor, mothers raise children from booklets on child care supplied by the Press, teen-agers dance at its free parties, and every year hundreds...