Word: circe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Angeles Daily News (circ. 188,453) was on tne block. As the only Democratic daily among Los Angeles' tive, the News and its advocates have been trying to find a buyer among such political friends as International Teamsters Union Boss Dave Beck. Jimmy Roosevelt, Averell Harriman, New York Post Publisher Dorothy Schiff. But even those who were interested have been scared off by one grim fact: the ailing News is losing an estimated $75,000 or more a month. Last week the News turned up with a buyer who appeared not to be afraid of that fact. Sheldon...
...Sackett the lawyers loved built his Coos Bay Times (circ. 8,930) into a daily that nets close to $75,000 a year and has a brand-new plant. From his publishing earnings Sackett has also picked up control of two money-making radio stations, and now has an option on a TV station in Vancouver, Wash, as well as the San Leandro, Calif, daily News-Observer (5,473). In periods of expansiveness. Sackett has been known to roam the coast picking up options to buy papers as lightly as he tosses off philosophic oratory from William James, Santayana...
...A.F.L.'s Teamsters' Union, headed by ambitious, bulletheaded Dave Beck, is reported to have paid $250,000 toward the purchase of the Los Angeles Daily News (circ. 188,453). Although News Publisher Robert L. Smith denied the report, union spokesmen say "there is a chance that some arrangements have been made...
...their crusade against the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina. Editor Willard Cole of the Whiteville News Reporter (circ. 5,007) and Editor Horace Carter of the Tabor City Tribune (circ. 1,500) won a Pulitzer Prize this year (TIME, May 11), the only one ever given to weekly papers. Last week Editor Cole was praised from another quarter for his journalistic enterprise. In the mail came an unsolicited letter from former Imperial Wizard Thomas L. Hamilton, who was sent to jail, along with 15 other Klansmen, as a result of the weeklies' crusade. Said Hamilton's letter...
...large American city," said the Houston Post (circ. 184,461), "Houston is remarkably free of Communist influences . . . which, from all indications, just do not exist in the city." Schoolteachers have uncomplainingly taken non-Communist oaths; no Houstonians have taken refuge behind the Fifth Amendment before a congressional committee; Houston has neither Red-tinged bookshops nor locally published pink magazines. Nevertheless, said the Post, a "miasmic fear of Communism . . . has permeated Houston." In whispering campaigns, patriotic clergymen, educators and schoolteachers have been denounced as Reds, and meeting halls have been closed to visiting speakers on the ground that they were...